SCRIPT MARKETING
How to Market and Sell a Screenplay
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Script Marketing examines approaches screenwriters use to get their work read by the film industry. Students develop an understanding of how agencies, management companies, production companies, studios, entertainment attorneys, and writer unions interact as well as the important role writers' groups, conferences, film festivals, fellowships and competitions play in getting your work in the hands of the right people.
COURSE LESSONS
1 - INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Script Marketing! Click the "Start Now" button to review the course syllabus and schedule as well as familiarize yourself with the craft of filmmaking.
2 - MAKING CONTACT
Assuming you have a script ready to go, the next step is to find the SOMEONE interested in what you have created. With that in mind, let's talk about writing Query Letters!
3 - BARTON FINK (1991)
When Barton Fink, an intellectual New York playwright, finds himself writing screenplays, his world flips upside down in this comedy / thriller about the screenwriting industry in Hollywood!
4 - PROOF OF CONCEPT
Writing a script is one thing... Producing a script is something very different. Time to talk about "Lights, Camera, Action" and think about getting this thing made!
5 - THE DISASTER ARTIST (2017)
Based on the true story of Tommy Wiseau, this comedy tells the story of two struggling actor/writers who decide to produce their own feature film!
6 - REPRESENTATION
Agents and Managers... Who are they and why do you need them. How to navigate the complex network of people required to take your script to the next stage.
7 - ADAPTATION (2002)
Arguably one of the best films on the challenge of screenwriting and overcoming writer's block, Adaptation tells the "real" story of screenwriting Charlie Kaufman as he attempts to adapt a book for the screen.
8 - NEXT STEPS
Now that you have a script, possibly a film, and representation, what are the options to get this story in front of the right people?
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