I wonder if anyone here knows if there is a person or entity in this field who takes a synopsis to different producers and gets them sold. I ask because I have a few very good ideas for movies but I would love to sell the concept before i spend time writing the full script.
Producing : Need help finding the right person by Slavica Bogdanov
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well, there are agents and manager. I'd say pitch a few of them to the managers or agents on our Happy Writers pitch sessions.
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Nobody will buy your concept/ideas. Put in the work. Write the script or pay someone
What Dan says is the truth. Established writers get to pitch ideas.
Agents/Managers will help with that but ultimately you have to write the script. I half-way agree with Dan and Rich but not completely. execs will buy your ideas if it's a good idea, inexperienced or not. execs buy a writers idea or script just off a log line every day. But in most cases, you gotta put in the time to write the full script because in most cases they're going to want a script after a pitch meeting.
You can't copyright a concept/idea so what's to keep someone from stealing it? At the very least you should write out a treatment. That can be copyrighted and/or register with WGA. You're safer pitching that.
Basically, a synopsis is not a marketable item. You might use it to tempt other more experienced writers to co-op with you.
I'm thinking of trying these two sites www.moviepitcher.com and www.moviepitch.com
Well Karen, just a little bit of truth straight up. I looked at your profile and your homepage and here's what I noted. You're in NC, but you're available in CA. You seem to have the novel writing experience, so you know how to write. But what do you REALLY know about writing in script format? I'm assuming you have a literary agent - but does that agent know much about the film industry? If you have an agent - why isn't he pitching it for you? Do you have a completely written, rewritten and polished film script ready to go? (Most novelists have no idea how to write a spec script.) If you have a script - has it been vetted yet? Best of luck to you, but be careful out there in the land that's all phony.
I write screenplays too but I was only answering to her question about pitching ideas and sharing two websites that I've been considering. www.greenlightmymovie.com is another site she might be interested in. NC makes a lot of movies. It's 2nd to CA if you don't add in NY's soap opera production.
I agree with Dan. Not to be rude, but it seems like you're in search of a shortcut (something I make a constant effort to find in my planning and actions as well, which is to say I'm truly not telling you anything I wouldn't tell myself)
Dan and others are right. If you are an unknown, unproduced and don't have access to directors, producers, prodco's, etc then there isn't really an avenue to just make money on ideas alone.
Many Products won't expect ideas. They are afraid that they will develop an idea and have trouble with a person who put a thread into a final project.
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We've all been there! Slavica, show your determination, confidence, and focus, by writing the first draft of the screenplay with the one idea closest to your heart, there are dedicated people here that can help you get started... Best of luck!
I am myself looking for interesting concepts that can be set/adapted to India. Do you feel we can take this forward?
Way to go, Shahnawaz & Slavica - hope something comes out of it!