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Adrian
So few people realise that the film industry is an industry and people involved in it, are in business.
It’s great that amateurs and want-to-bes can get through the system and become successful. I have, in a very short time, but I’ve done it by approaching people with care and diligence.
Sending out unsolicited scripts is a sure way to get ignored, it’s no different to the hundreds of telephone sales people offing double glazing or cheaper power and it demeans your work by association.
The film industry is probably the most desired and hardest to enter. Last year some hundred thousand scripts were registered and less than one thousand made it to a screen.
In LA there are some two to three hundred thousand actors looking for work and as with most businesses people are protective of their jobs and roles once they are part of the circus.
As a writer I realised early on that even if my screenplays were the best thing since sliced bread, unless somebody read them, I was wasting my time.
Not knowing anybody in the industry meant I had no contacts, so I researched how others had managed to break in. It’s all on the web, interviews, blogs, web sites and news letters.
I initially settled for placing my scripts on InkTip, after registering them with the WGA.
I received my first offer to write a script for a director within four months of starting, after he had read two of my scripts on that site.
Now I have four commissions under my belt, one option and one editing job, and I am the script moderator on an American based Indie Producers web site, all within two years.
So it can be done, if you do it correctly.
If you are a writer, remember that every post you write, every blog, every email is an example of your skill, and the Internet makes almost everything you write, visible to the whole world.
It’s a great shop window, both for talent and idiots.
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