There’s a principle I’ve only realized in the last few months with the current spec screenplay that I’m writing: find a buyer first.
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A Few Thoughts On Slated.com
I joined Slated in 2014 after attending a producer breakout session at the American Film Market in early November. The speaker was the co-founder and CEO of slated.com, Steph Paternot.
He was compelling, confident, and it felt like I was hearing the answer to my prayers! They had created a site who’s sole intention was to connect independent producers and filmmakers with financing and distribution.
As we’ve used the site over the last year and a half, I wanted to write about our experience, why our expectations haven’t yet been met, and what I think both the users of the site and those running it could do to make it more valuable.
Why We Paid $1250 To Validate Our Film
My greatest fear is that I don’t know what I don’t know.
The voices in my head go something like this:
“What if you’ve spent the last year, full time, writing a script, raising money, attaching actors, and producing a teaser, only to end up making a movie that sucks, and everyone around you saw it but you…”
That is seriously my greatest fear. Lucky for me (and for you), there’s a way to avoid this sort of outcome.
THE PROCESS OF WRITING A SCREENPLAY
For the last year I’ve been working nearly full time on the screenplay for HIDDEN WORLD. This post will outline some of the big things I’ve learned over that time, and by the end hopefully convince you that the process of writing and revising a screenplay is an essential part of the roadmap to making a feature film.