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The "Creating for Film" area of
ScreenWritersVault.com provides a
brief and professional perspective in how to conceive, create and sell your
ideas for the film industry in a marketable format. It will help you
learn how to think and formulate concepts for today's thriving and competitive
film industry, as well as understand the inner-workings of the industry
to streamline your creative efforts in the most viable directions.
The most valuable tool in
learning how and why companies will buy and produce certain ideas is experience.
Pitching your concepts to executives in the industry will also build
relationships regardless of whether or not your idea for a movie is purchased.
It is creating and building those direct relations that enables the creator of
concepts to better understand how to pitch a movie idea, as well as what
specifically the buyers are looking for. Most importantly, you will learn to
refine your ideas into a language that the executive can sell because they
better understand it's potential.
Having a completed Idea
Synopsis or Movie script can help a project along in development and enable a
producer to better see the projects potential, but unless you are able to
concentrate your story into a brief synopsis with a highly marketable "logline",
a producer will never invest the time in reading the entire script or treatment,
and there is no chance of the project being produced. The foundation of any
project's success is built on the ability of the executives and producers to
communicate the project efficiently throughout the development process, not to
mention the fact that if a busy executive isn't interested in the basic concept
or premise of your show they will never invest the time in reading a full
script. The sale is in the originality and power of the concept, and that is
where an executive will see it's potential entertainment value. In the end, it
is similar to the movie studio communicating that very basic and original concept to the
viewing audience in the advertising and marketing of the film. At the
Screen
Writers Vault we help the writer bring the "idea power" of their project to this form of
presentation, and provide the industry executives with exactly their preferred
method of reviewing materials for development and sale.
The following is a simple
structure (content not included) of presentation (treatment) for any project, and is similar to the
registration/submission form used for the
Screen Writers Vault. A typical
treatment can be anywhere from 3 to 10 pages. The key is to be original and
efficient in expression.
PROJECT TITLE
Genre:
("Romantic Comedy", "Fantasy
Adventure", "True Crime Drama", "Western" etc.)
Reg.Writers
Guild of America #
or CreatorsVault.com # (Recommended, but not mandatory)
LOGLINE
(1 or 2 sentence description of your concept or script. Similar to what you might see in TV Guide
or on a poster for a movie, but a bit
more descriptive of content).
TREATMENT (Synopsis,
Outline) A detailed description of your story as we would see it on play out on
the screen. Usually 3 to 12 pages in length). It's important to be efficient with your
descriptions, yet give enough information to provoke interest of the reader. The
golden rule: Show the reader what we are watching-
There is no one way to form
a movie pitch.
However, there are philosophies and formats that will help the buyer see more
clearly what your story idea is, and it’s potential.
Please refer to the
additional menu items within the "Creating the Industry" navigation bar to the
left, for insight into creating projects for all genres of movies.
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