| Are you interested in getting your movie ideas | | | | of money to be taking producers out to lunch and |
| discovered not only by movie producers but also | | | | it can also be very frustrating trying to get a |
| by the movie going public? Then you have to | | | | producer to agree to take a meeting with an |
| stop thinking about creating movies and start | | | | unknown. You have to be very persistent and not |
| writing your movie ideas down on paper. The only | | | | allow rejection to bother you. |
| way that you are going to get your movie ideas | | | | Write your own screenplay |
| from your head to the screen is if you actually | | | | Do you know how to write a screenplay? You |
| put some work towards your movie ideas. | | | | can do this by getting a book on how to write a |
| When was the last time you went to the movies | | | | screenplay and following the examples in the |
| and thought to yourself "I can do better than | | | | book. A screenplay is about 120 pages long and |
| that!" If you have been going recently, you | | | | mostly tells the story in dialogue. The screenplay |
| probably said this to yourself quite often. And you | | | | is basically an idea for a movie but is not the |
| probably can do better than what is out there in | | | | movie script itself. It will outline the movie for the |
| the theaters now. It seems as if Hollywood has | | | | director and the script writer so that they can |
| run out of ideas and simply has to hash up the | | | | add more dialogue. You have to be familiar with |
| same old plots. If you have something better, you | | | | film and terminology in order to write an effective |
| owe it to the public to put it on paper and have it | | | | screenplay. Then you have to either try to pitch it |
| discovered so that it can be made into a movie. | | | | yourself or get an agent to pitch it for you. The |
| Who knows - you may be the one accepting the | | | | problem with getting an agent is that you cannot |
| Oscar at the next Academy Awards presentation. | | | | get one if you do not have anything sold and will |
| So how do you get your ideas from your head | | | | have a hard time getting anything sold without an |
| and into the head of some producer who will | | | | agent. |
| make it into a film? Here are some tried and true | | | | Use a movie site |
| methods: | | | | Get your movie ideas really out there on a movie |
| Contact a producer or his agent | | | | idea website. You can find a movie idea website |
| Get on the phone and look for an agent or | | | | that will allow you to post your movie ideas and |
| producer who will agree to meet with you. You | | | | even get feedback from other writers. Some |
| may have to blow your own horn a bit to try to | | | | sites will actually work with producers to get you |
| get this to happen, but once you set up a | | | | a deal if your movie ideas are intriguing enough |
| meeting, which producers do all of the time, you | | | | for them to want to make into a film. The best |
| an then pitch your idea to the producer. If he likes | | | | aspect of using a movie site to post your movie |
| it, he might want to hear more. If not, you will | | | | ideas is that you can get instant feedback as to |
| not hear from him again, despite his promises to | | | | how the movie is received as well as a chance to |
| call. | | | | get discovered by a producer. |
| The drawback to this method is that it costs a lot | | | | |