(Even a humble 16GB thumb drive can carry around probably close to 120,000 screenplays in PDF format. It’s kind of 2007, but USB drives (aka flash drives or thumb drives), which used to cost $50, $70, or more for just a 500MB drive, are now super super cheap. Wonk Factor: You’re kind of old school, but hey, it works Share your script via t humb drive That said, storing your script as an attachment in your email app works and is quite common. Three, if you email your script, you never know if they’ll actually get that email, or if your script ended up in their spambox, or ignored, or deleted. Two, if you meet a bigwig at a party, it’s great to get their email address, but it could be problematic, because not every exec wants to give out their email address – even their business address.
One, if you don’t know how to create a proper sized PDF of your screenplay, it could end up a bit too big to email for some folks. It’s still the most common way of transferring a script.īut there are several things that make this option somewhat less palatable: It’s kind of 2004, but when PDFs were finally getting to the point where everybody knew what they were and how to open them, emailing scripts as attachments finally caught on. Wonk Factor: You’re your grandma Store your script as an e mail attachment
That said, if you’re working the room at a convention where not everybody is hugely tech literate, like in a developing country, or at a remote island outpost in the Pacific, I suppose the CD could be a viable alternative. Sure, a few people have computers that still use this old spinning optical disc technology, but it’s probably not most people. Here are a few recommendations for keeping your script “on you” at all times, and ready to hand to someone who may be able to help your writing career. And no, I’m not talking about a 120-page stack of paper. Or you could send her home with your script in her pocket. What do you do? Run to your car and come back with the printed script you keep in your backseat? Awkward. Then it comes out: you’re a screenwriter and you’ve written a script that may be a perfect fit for what she’s looking for. And the wife is one of the small handful of people in the film industry who’s able to greenlight films, or buy spec scripts.Īnd you hit it off really well with her, talking about your mutual love for cinema, horror movies, Spike Lee movies, and your mutual disdain for the idea of The Hobbit being presented in the video-looking 48 FPS frame rate. Then your friends’ other friends show up. Imagine you’re at a backyard barbecue in Encino, visiting with some old friends and having some vegan ribs. Of course, you can do it, but what a pain! Screenplay by D.Carrying a printed screenplay around is not an option anymore. Screenplay by Joseph Stefano and Robert Bloch – Read the script! CARRIE (1977) (NOTE: For educational and research purposes only).
Hart, David Chase, John August, Oliver Stone and more. When you are done reading take a listen to Apple’s #1 Screenwriting Podcast The Bulletproof Screenwriting Podcast, with guest like Oscar Winner Eric Roth, James V. Do you think we’re missing a script? Let us know by providing the link in the comment section. Here are the Top Ten Horror Screenplays in no particular order. The term Horror has evolved throughout the years initially, it was meant to include everything except graphic violence, but now it can involve as much gore and violence as one can conjure in about 100 minutes. The Horror Genre has been a mainstay of the motion picture experience practically since its inception.