Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
I must have missed the part where The Black List guarantees results. Seriously, there does come a point in the quest where you need to step back and realize the The Black List is just that, a list of scripts rated on their site by assigned numbers, numbers given arbitrarily by human readers. After that, anything that happens with your script is out of their hands. It's up to the "pros" whether they download or read.
Your logline, your genre, your script itself needs to be something they're looking for on top of everything else. And then, your script needs to hit a bullseye. Something that doesn't happen all that much. So relax, regroup, maybe write another script or two, and next time go the query route or try The Black List again, knowing exactly what it is and what it does. There is success to be found on it. But I'm willing to bet the percentage of success versus the number of scripts posted is very very low. Because that's what the entire industry is like.
Originally posted by Hush92
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Your logline, your genre, your script itself needs to be something they're looking for on top of everything else. And then, your script needs to hit a bullseye. Something that doesn't happen all that much. So relax, regroup, maybe write another script or two, and next time go the query route or try The Black List again, knowing exactly what it is and what it does. There is success to be found on it. But I'm willing to bet the percentage of success versus the number of scripts posted is very very low. Because that's what the entire industry is like.
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