Hi everyone,
New around here so I hope this hasn't been covered before. I just had a question regarding the notion of "taking a script to market". Several years ago I had a management team that actually took a spec of mine to market, it was read by more than 40 producers, no one bit, and I got one lousy meeting out of the deal. Not here to complain, merely setting the stage for the question.
Okay, at the time I was close with my manager and they explain to me that they post the logline on one of these tracking boards, and then anyone interested contacts them, and they send the script out. The whole process was over and done in two days. Here is my question --
What is this tracking board (I don't believe trackingb.com was around then, and it seems like that site is merely a status update type anyway) where the logline was listed, and does that still exist? I guess the root of my question has to do with --
How do agents/manager get the material to those that are interested? Is it merely from an internal list of "connections" that they have, or is there some form of industry network where available material is listed?
Sorry if this is a stupid question. I was just wondering, and hopefully someone on here can shed some light for me.
Thanks
UPDATE: I just found this little bit from a manager (not my manager) talking about the old process:
"We (this particular manager) have friends at FilmTracker who tracks on about fifteen tracking boards. We have him post one sentence about the spec script on the tracking board on a Tuesday morning. Development execs around town use these boards to know what material agents and managers are taking out and if they are interested they will call on the material. We have our studio based producer list and as we call them with the idea and the time it will be available. If they are interested they send a messenger to pick up the same day. We have an answer from the producers the next morning if they are passing or if it is something they want for their studio, known as a territory, or what other territories they would like as well. We assign one producer per territory and they take it into the studio executive who typically makes a decision about whether or not they are interested in the script within 48 hours. The decision to bid is usually fueled by competition from the other studios because they know that if they like it and they don't take it off the table then somebody else will."
So FilmTracker no longer exists as far as know, so now where do the Development Execs look?
New around here so I hope this hasn't been covered before. I just had a question regarding the notion of "taking a script to market". Several years ago I had a management team that actually took a spec of mine to market, it was read by more than 40 producers, no one bit, and I got one lousy meeting out of the deal. Not here to complain, merely setting the stage for the question.
Okay, at the time I was close with my manager and they explain to me that they post the logline on one of these tracking boards, and then anyone interested contacts them, and they send the script out. The whole process was over and done in two days. Here is my question --
What is this tracking board (I don't believe trackingb.com was around then, and it seems like that site is merely a status update type anyway) where the logline was listed, and does that still exist? I guess the root of my question has to do with --
How do agents/manager get the material to those that are interested? Is it merely from an internal list of "connections" that they have, or is there some form of industry network where available material is listed?
Sorry if this is a stupid question. I was just wondering, and hopefully someone on here can shed some light for me.
Thanks
UPDATE: I just found this little bit from a manager (not my manager) talking about the old process:
"We (this particular manager) have friends at FilmTracker who tracks on about fifteen tracking boards. We have him post one sentence about the spec script on the tracking board on a Tuesday morning. Development execs around town use these boards to know what material agents and managers are taking out and if they are interested they will call on the material. We have our studio based producer list and as we call them with the idea and the time it will be available. If they are interested they send a messenger to pick up the same day. We have an answer from the producers the next morning if they are passing or if it is something they want for their studio, known as a territory, or what other territories they would like as well. We assign one producer per territory and they take it into the studio executive who typically makes a decision about whether or not they are interested in the script within 48 hours. The decision to bid is usually fueled by competition from the other studios because they know that if they like it and they don't take it off the table then somebody else will."
So FilmTracker no longer exists as far as know, so now where do the Development Execs look?
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