How to present my movie script?

Question

I wrote a great movie sript, now what?

Answer 1

Tell your story to some friends (don't read the script). If they're speechless, then move onto the next steps in submitting it to an agent. If they're not speechless, then you should reconsider your story and do some editing.

Continue the dialog:

Join a new writer's forum:
http://www.storyentertainment.com/forum

Answer 2

Ask your family and close friends to read it and make comments. Then do a script coverage. It'll cost you some money but you'll get an in-depth analysis of your script so you know what works and what doesn't. Some of the script coverage services will help forward your script to an agent if it goes beyond great. You might be interested to join this: www.storylink.com. It's a perfect opportunity to network with other writers and producers. Good luck with your career.

Answer 3

Well, Reister it with the Writers Guild.

There is an on line submission service that work, but costs money (so does registering it with the guild) so you need an intial budget of like $80 for one month on line and 10 years registration.

http://www.tvwritersvault.com/

This was started by Scott Manville who was a head guy at Merv Griffin Productions.

While it was primarily designed for reality TV show pitches, they do accept anything and producers go there and people have sold things.

Short of that you have to walk it around town and get people who WILL NOT read things to READ IT

Genearlly you pitch it live with an oral presentation.

HAve your Covrage ready (that's a ONE LINE pitch for what the show is about, for example "Romeo and Juliet on Smack" was the coverage for the script "Panic in Needle Park" and that pitch sold it instantly to a producer.)

When my television commercial co-producers pitched their show Whacked Out to Filmways it was "National Lampoon Magazine gets bought up by Time-Life, Suits and ties learn to live with long hair and sandals." Filmways called up NBC and then bought it after NBC showed interest. It made it Pilot not to Series. And the Welcome Back Kotter team was brought in to do the shooting script and produce it. My associates would be only Story Editors.

Answer 4

Buy a copy of The Writer's Market. It's lists contact information for Literary Agencies. Once you finish your script, mail a copy to a Literary Agency. If interested they will contact you. Do not follow-up with them. Most scripts end up in the trash can.