hi all - sorry it's taken so long t get to this but it's been mental dashing from meeting to meeting. Arrived in LA and treated myself to the soft top motor on the assumption that if the meetings go shite; least I'll have a bit of fun getting there...
Excellent start to the trip organised by Kelly Marshall a fellow writer and course director at the London College of Communications (an excellent screenwriting MA with a great hit rate of professional writers coming out the other side). First meeting was with Lee Zahavi Jessup of Script shark http://www.scriptshark.com/ aat the fabulous Literati Cafe. A must for writers with all the decor relating to writing and screen plays and the best hot oatmeal and blueberries...
Her chat was an introduction to the industry. Script shark offer a suport base for the writer, running script coveage services and acting as a conduit for strong scripts to get read by the indutry. Lee was witty, engaging, extremely informative and realistic about the business at the minute. Saying the days of selling a spec script right off the bat are gone whilst also qualifying that with the tale of a bored insurance guy who wrote a script at his desk to aleviate boredom only to the sell it for several figures. She talked about the importance of entering script comps to get your script noticed and read by decision makers, suggesting you enter one big one - Final Draft or Scriptalooza with four entries into some of the smaller ones - either using a friends' US address or appying as a Brit, taking the vew that if you get high enough up the pile for it to be noticed, it won't matter that you might be disqualified; you got read. This exact thing happened to an alumni of the LCC and the writing team are now on to their second US script commission. She also suggested you don't go for the csh prize comps but the ones with the most impressive panel of readers. She also said that the industry is now more about nurturing a relationship with a writer in the ong term rather than just buying their script and bye-bye.
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