Services - You Have a Script - Now What?
THE PRODUCER READ
It's not about becoming a producer; it is about writing for a producer. Let's get you started on the right track: Will A Producer think your writing is ready for production? OR... Will you get the dreaded "PASS" only because of your formatting is confusing or your style holds your story back?
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THE TAGGING LESSON
Your Writing is Ready for Submission When it Can Be Tagged by a Line Producer
How I Coach
Why 15 Minutes?
15 minutes is enough time to expose a knowledge gap in a person's intellect. This means that you realize "what you don't know." If you are a motivated and willing subject, the 15 minute script session will expand your vision for your writing. We all must knock down barriers we are unaware of until they face us. Educators call this a Learning Curve. Successful people make every attempt to reduce the Learning Curve in their time management. Harvard Business Review
Studies Show
Several studies have shown that 15 minutes of concentration increased students' and entrepreneurs' focus to achieve their goals on test taking, performance, and goal achievement.
Changing Your Mindset
Metacognition - the practice of thinking about thinking- this is what I do for you. I want you to think differently about your writing when we are finished, for your benefit.
Writing a Script and Selling a Script Have Entirely Different Rules Make a Turn Towards Success
Make a definitive decision regarding your definition of success. If you don't know it yet, that's fine, but at some point, you will need to decide the future of the Intellectual Property you have created. Unless you write only for cathartic reasons, learning the business journey is in your best interest. Creating a script that has the potential to be turned into a viable film or TV series is as essential as the story you are telling. You must make your script Production Ready.
Expectation Management
Expectation Management - Are your writing goals realistic? Where do you want to finish? And what are the benchmarks that lead you to these goals? Set your expectations as soon as possible. Invest in your education and be honest with yourself about the process and your goals. Be willing to change, and learn to say no when the boundaries do not fit within your goals and limits.
There is No Team in I - Why You Have to Be 100% Competant
Why? It takes a team, but the leader of the team is YOU. You have to be 100% competent because you make the decisions. If you fail in your responsibility, especially for lack of trying, a team of experts cannot help you to evolve towards your goals. This is why the process starts with "I", "I am willing to do what it takes." When you have completed the task of presenting a well-written, coherent script, ready for a Line Producer, you can bring on the team.
About Me
Wanting Success Isn't Enough
I'm not a script coach. I'm a brain coach. What kind of writer do you want to be? A marshmallow or a maverick? The writing world isn't easy, or kind; you have to be exceptional. I coach writer's the same way I coached athletes at the Olympic Training Center -- for results! It isn't just about your writing; it's your attitude about your project. A writer's mission is to create a great story BUT, more importantly, to create a project that can be developed and produced into a profitable venture. Is that your goal? That's mine - and it takes the mindset of a "maverick" - an independent thinker. Soon, that's you too. And brace yourself - you need to hear the cold hard truth to understand what your project "Can Be." Write Beyond - get your project ready for production. I'll show you how.
How 15 Minutes Can Change Your Future
Fifteen minutes is enough time to enhance your wring skills and give you the potential to move your script to the next level. You must be an ambassador of your writing and become an entrepreneur in the business of "your" writing and brand. Fifteen minutes is your reboot, which creates the point of a new heightened and sharpened focus. The first fifteen minutes of your session I do a live reactionary read. Have you ever put a book down? As with anything read, the beginning is the most critical aspect of comprehension, vision, interest, and excitement. A script is a "read" - not your film. Your entrepreneurial responsibility is to create a script that transfers words into a visual format for film or TV. If you cannot clearly portray your innovation and inspiration to an executive within fifteen minutes, or likely less, you have a slim chance of moving forward to the next step. Don't assume that an exec will move beyond anything less than excellence.
How We Spend Our Scheduled 40-Minutes on Zoom on The Producer Read
- 15 - 20 Minutes on the first 5 pages of your script. This is a read-out-loud by me with reactions as I see it from a producer's perspective.
- 15-20 Minutes with your questions about "why" I reacted in a certain way and what you should do to improve these specific aspects of writing a script that would become ready for a line producer.
- We do this on Zoom live by scheduling it through email.
- You pay $55.00. After I have received your payment, I will contact you by email so that we can schedule the 40- minute ZOOM session.
Some of the Stuff MY WRITING INCLUDES
PLAYER: A Memoir and Series
THE CIGAR GAME: A Feature Film
THE CIGAR GAME: A Feature Film
TITLE: PLAYER
LOGLINE: Based on a True Story – 1997 – At the dawn of the World Wide Web: An innocent Internet search leads an ambitious suburban mom into a double-life as a racketeering criminal in one of the most unbelievable, financial schemes in history.
FORMAT: 1 Hour/ Multiple Season Series for Television: Attached Intellectual Prope
TITLE: PLAYER
LOGLINE: Based on a True Story – 1997 – At the dawn of the World Wide Web: An innocent Internet search leads an ambitious suburban mom into a double-life as a racketeering criminal in one of the most unbelievable, financial schemes in history.
FORMAT: 1 Hour/ Multiple Season Series for Television: Attached Intellectual Property: PLAYER The Intellectual Property (330-page nonfiction): PLAYER by Corey May
THE CIGAR GAME: A Feature Film
THE CIGAR GAME: A Feature Film
THE CIGAR GAME: A Feature Film
The true story of the Boston College point shaving scandal of the 1978-79 basketball season.
THE BANKERS: A Miniseries
THE CIGAR GAME: A Feature Film
THE BANKERS: A Miniseries
Based on the history from the nonfiction book, BEYOND RACE, by Leonard Wheeler and Corey May.
LOGLINE: A DNA test challenges the fiber of love between an interracial couple as they relive their ancestral connection to Wall Street through active memories in the Atlantic Slave Trade (1715).
Some of the Stuff MY WRITING INCLUDES
Beyond Race
WASHINGTON: A Comedy Feature Film
WASHINGTON: A Comedy Feature Film
A nonfiction narrative by Leonard Wheeler and Corey May.
TITLE: BEYOND RACE
Subtitle: What's Myth? What's Real? And What Do We Do About It?
Tag: The first book to apply Cybernetics and Emotional Intelligence to practical theories and methods that can create positive change for solving America's "race" problems.
WASHINGTON: A Comedy Feature Film
WASHINGTON: A Comedy Feature Film
WASHINGTON: A Comedy Feature Film
LOGLINE: A struggling African American President, who must prevent the government from shutting down, is tricked into hypnosis, and when he wakes up, he thinks he is George Washington... and when he's brought along the Founding Fathers with him to fix the modern government.
A fish out of water story, which includes real history! Familyf fun.
COMMANDER X: A Feature Film
WASHINGTON: A Comedy Feature Film
COMMANDER X: A Feature Film
LOGLINE: Based on a True Stor: 2011, San Francisco - based on one of the first shootings of an African American with mental illness reaching for his cellphone.
After an African American with mental illness is chased and shot by the police for a 2$ unpaid transit ticket, the San Francisco BART transit cops hide the revealing cellphone foot
LOGLINE: Based on a True Stor: 2011, San Francisco - based on one of the first shootings of an African American with mental illness reaching for his cellphone.
After an African American with mental illness is chased and shot by the police for a 2$ unpaid transit ticket, the San Francisco BART transit cops hide the revealing cellphone footage, so Commander X, the leader of ‘Anonymous,’ the infamous hacking community, organizes a masked ‘Guy Fawkes’ riot to reveal the truth.
Some of the Stuff MY WRITING INCLUDES
THE EMPIRE: DAS REICH
SEEKING FREEDOM: A FEATURE FILM
THE EMPIRE: DAS REICH
Based on True History
PROJECT: THE EMPIRE: DAS REICH
How the Allies Won World War II – Told Through the Nuremberg Trials
FORMAT: 20-hour Television Series, Elevated Cable, or Streaming
GENRE: Drama Based on True History from Newly Declassified Documents – Political Drama
LOGLINE: As the United States begins the process of
Based on True History
PROJECT: THE EMPIRE: DAS REICH
How the Allies Won World War II – Told Through the Nuremberg Trials
FORMAT: 20-hour Television Series, Elevated Cable, or Streaming
GENRE: Drama Based on True History from Newly Declassified Documents – Political Drama
LOGLINE: As the United States begins the process of uncovering evidence for the first War Crimes Tribunal, while simultaneously, Russia’s ruse to begin the Cold War intensifies, they find evidence beyond the magnitude of anything they have ever seen, and the reasons why the Allies have won World War II.
TONAL COMPS: BAND OF BROTHERS meets THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE. Band of Brothers because there are many true accounts from seven years of dedicated research, but the Brothers are German, and the man in The Man in the High Castle because the Brothers live in the fantasy castle of “what ifs” under the rule of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler.
PAW AND ORDER
SEEKING FREEDOM: A FEATURE FILM
THE EMPIRE: DAS REICH
An Animated Series: In Dog Town, the residents, all dogs of different breeds, experience life and law, through the eyes of the laws written by humans, but it's against most of the common sense, or intuition known to dogs as instinct.
Every Episode: A half- hour adventure about a different type of legal situation like, slip and falls, car c
An Animated Series: In Dog Town, the residents, all dogs of different breeds, experience life and law, through the eyes of the laws written by humans, but it's against most of the common sense, or intuition known to dogs as instinct.
Every Episode: A half- hour adventure about a different type of legal situation like, slip and falls, car crashes, jay walking, trespassing, loitering, dog bites, food poisoning, citizenship, truancy, theft, Good Samaritans, traffic violations, and the like.
Format: Half Hour
Grades: One through Four
SEEKING FREEDOM: A FEATURE FILM
SEEKING FREEDOM: A FEATURE FILM
SEEKING FREEDOM: A FEATURE FILM
LOGLINE: A fugitive slave leads Union troops from Virginia’s fortress Monroe into the Battle of Big Bethel, triggering a general’s campaign demanding President Lincoln end slavery.
AUTHORS: Corey May and Jana Zinser, Book by Selene Castrovilla
COREY'S PERSONAL TIPS AND RESOURCES:
WRITE PROJECTS THAT ARE TIMELESS
With whatever genre you write, take a good look into the future of the media business. And take a look at the rules that pertain to all professional screenwriters. Article by Ken Myamoto at ScreenCraft
USE DIVERSITY WHEREVER GENUINE
As a test, remove your passion. Be genuine, plausible, reasonable, and intentioned with storylines and characters.
HAVE A FORMULA
Here's my formula. Take any character, or A/B/C storyline, and put them into the formula. Then divide by your target # of pages.
NO ONE DOES THIS ALONE!
Let others read. Take advice from people who have your betterment in mind and have travelled the journey themselves.
THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCREEN CONSULTANTS
- Story, Format, Character, Rewrite, or Script Coverage.
- Which one do you need?
UNLESS GRANDMA IS AN A-LISTER, SHE PROBABLY CAN'T HELP YOU
Friends make willing bait, but you will face the criticism of the pros.
WHEN YOU MAKE IT!