This article Testament support you deduce the steps decisive in marketing a script for television.
Instructions
1. Dash off A SOLID SCRIPT
The basic course in marketing a television script is ensuring you keep a script that is marketable. Is the script written fine? Is the allegory attractive? Is it written using Correct screenplay format? Are the characters realistic, entertaining and engaging? You must effect that the script is ready to drive. For a television script this should be a 45-60 minute "aeronaut" script.
2. IGNORE REJECTION / REPEAT MARKETINGThe marketing process can go on forever. For a serious writer the best thing to do is to begin working on another script and set a goal of "X" number of contacts each month for previous scripts. Thus, you might set a goal to send out 5 query letters or make 5 pitches on this television script while you work on a new screeplay.
3. BEGIN MARKETING
Okay, at this point you have a solid script also as the series bible. Now you need to receive it in front of people. For a new writer you will pursue three angles of approach: 1) Personal contacts (friends, friends of friends hoping to find a connection to someone in the movie business) 2) Agents (Use any of the agency guides to find reputable agents to send the script to) 3) Producers/Studios (These are usually found in the same type of books as you will find agency contacts).
4. EVALUATE RESPONSES
It it important that you evaluate the reception your script is getting from people. You can safely ignore one individual opinion, but if 5 people tell you the story/series doesn't work then you have a problem. The same applies to characters/plot etc. If you need to rewrite something then you need to pay attention and do it before you send it out again.
5. Draw up A SERIES BIBLE FOR A Dissimilar SERIESProvided your script is for an existing television appearance then proceed To pace 3. Otherwise, provided it is for a current television series you duty to commit to paper a SERIES BIBLE. What is a series bible? A series bible is essentially a capacious overview of the proposed series. It Testament include characters / thematic issues / clothesline and aspect arcs / setting and virtually anything else meaningful for maintaining series cohesion over a lingering extension of era. Glance around on the internet and you will find a few examples which you can use as guidelines for writing your own.
