Write A Great Opening Scene
It's tough with today's spec market.
Help yourself out with a great opening scene.
It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy or a thriller: have the opening be gripping, or intriguing, or mysterious, or exciting, or all four.
Help yourself out with a great opening scene.
It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy or a thriller: have the opening be gripping, or intriguing, or mysterious, or exciting, or all four.
A great opening scene will get you a lot of leeway when it comes to how long an industry player will sit down to read your script. If you keep the scenes consistently great, you might achieve that rarity of all rarities – an agent who reads a script from cover to cover.
"There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay."
-Richard Attenborough
Sources: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/screenplay.html#Qt2XAKBwUuITJCDb.99 and http://www.screenplay.com/default.aspx.
A former Hollywood Lit Manager, Michael Ferris started ScriptAWish.com as a way to help other writers get their foot in the door and has helped several writers sell their scripts (like Travis Beacham of PACIFIC RIM) and set up projects with producers like Academy Award Winner Arnold Kopelson. The mission of ScriptAWish.com is to help aspiring writers get their scripts into shape and then get their foot in the door. His new venture is a collaboration with several professional screenwriters called StudioGhostwriters.com and is intended to help producers get their movie ideas on paper or their drafts polished for production.
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