Hello all! I am looking for a script consultant who specializes in horror/action, and understands the smart horror conventions. Its a feature length film and would like to speak to someone in the next 2-3 months - I am based in London.
Thank you!
Screenwriting : Looking for a script consultant/doctor specializing in Horror genre by Chloe Chudasama
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Perhaps study films. Read/study scripts with those conventions made available online. And if looking to hire someone, those searches or "want ad" posts, paid or not paid, are placed on the Jobs board found in the upper menu bar. Good luck and best to you!
I agree with Laura.
Try genretales.com? Based in the UK and work on all genres but have an affinity for horror.
Thanks all, think everyone may have interpreted my question wrong but i appreciate your comments :) I have a script writer and a script just need someone to go over it to perfect it/ give notes.
Thats all.
So Chloe, you're looking for (professional?) coverage - that's gonna cost bucks. Do you have faith & confidence in your script? If so, then spend a few buck on yourself confidence . Do the due diligence to make sure you're not wasting time/money. You've arrived at the fork in the road - one path is for doers, the other for talkers. I suggest you plod along the path less taken.
Chloe, I think Dan MaxXx has the most practical advice. If you're gonna spend money, buy a dinner for a working horror director or producer. Between you and Leroy, you guys should have the connections (even if they're 2nd or 3rd degrees of sep). Develop a relationship, get them invested in the project. Aren't you gonna need someone like that anyway, to move from dev into finance, into pre-pro?
Boys, Chloe seems to be producing this project.
To buy dinner for a working director or producer, do you just call up their manager or agent and say "I'd like to buy so-and-so dinner?" If that's all it takes, my phone is currently sitting here and will be used shortly...
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Sara - keep an eye on your phone bill. I know I've said this before but I'll repeat myself - if you want to meet Producers & Directors - hang out where Producers & Directors hang out. This is a person to person, eyeball to eyeball kinda business. Find a local project and volunteer as a PA or something. Be pleasant and don't knock the light stands over.
Thank you, Doug. :) I do agree with you wholeheartedly that this is a person-to-person business. In the eye of practicality (I have 3 kids ages 7, 5 and 3 and live in the Midwest) I do week-long visits to the coast(s) and will happily buy dinners, drinks, or coffees. I'm no screenwriter, but I do like to network for other reasons. :) Hence I'll gladly call people and set up said dinner for a face-to-face hang out. But maybe that's an impractical expectation.
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Sara Dahmen last time I was at Urth cafe in west hollywood, I was in line with Roy Lee & Ridley Scott and I think ScarJo was eating at the patio.
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Well I'll be in West Hollywood, so here's hoping. :) Thanks for the great tip!!
I know it is a people business. I never just called producers I didn't know and ask them if I can buy them lunch. I am not saying it wouldn't work... I am just saying I never did that myself. I did offer to read a few screenplays for a producer once that resulted in two writing assignments and a couple of rewrites for his company with pay. We became pretty good friends. A couple months ago he asked me to write another screenplay on assignment but I told him I didn't have time.