On an excellent web site called "Pilot Project," Aury Wallington, the script coordinator for "Sex and the City" offers some tips on how to write a successful spec script.
While the tips are entwined around the "Sex and the City" show, it reveals to you how to think as project as you put down in words the thoughts you want to convey to the world.
Before you go there and explore around, keep in mind that the overall purpose of the site has been overall fulfilled, as far as their talent search, but they have left several good articles on writing for TV and movies that are excellent to read, in that they are all written by those who are or have been employed by Hollywood.
Here are 6 tips by Aury to help write an excellent script before you put it in the mail.
· Consider how your ending affects the rest of the series.
· Make your story believable based on what you know that the characters’ actions and language.
· Make your script self-contained. Finish what you start within one episode.
· Use elements from recognizable episodes to show you understand the series.
· Make sure the number of scenes and the locations are consistent with the series.
· Remember the tone of the series. If your spec script is for a sitcom, it needs to be funny.
These are really solid tips from a writing insider. It goes back to the elements involved with any success: doing your homework. That's what is implied in the overall theme of this advice.
If you have a desire to write for an existing show and break in, this is great insight into what you need to do to get your chance.
If your thought is for something brand new, then you must project the same concepts listed here, onto the vision that you have in your head. Let the movie within you role as you keep in mind the things offered here for successs.
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