BSI | IP SHOWCASE /
BSI | IP OPEN SLATE (IOS)
No agent | No representative - is needed to become a member of this platform
BSI | IP SHOWCASE / IOS is not a contest, festival, or website listing for scripts.
IP SHOWCASE / IOS is an industry related system- discovery platform. It is an additional pathway for writers, content creators, and IP owners to make their projects visible to - studio executives, studio development / creative executives, buyers, advertisers, publishers, international content decision-makers with a centralized, efficient way to discover and evaluate original content and intellectual property (IP).
BSI IP SHOWCASE / IOS Now Open to Creators and IP owners — For a Limited Time.
The most important benefit of this platform is access. It opens an additional pathway and opportunity for writers, content creators, and IP owners to make visible and accessible their content and projects to industry decision makers.
Especially for independent creators who may not have an agent, manager, or established studio relationships.
TO GET STARTED?
2. Who Can Submit Their Projects
3. Review and Check Box To Accept Our Terms and Conditions
BSI | IP SHOWCASE / IOS ... evolved from our systems already open to corporate and studio clients to view development assigned projects, facilitate collaboration, track production progress, and help keep projects on schedule and on budget.
Through that experience, industry executives and decision makers spoke of the growing need for a more efficient way for industry media decision makers to access and quickly evaluate new content.
Register and submit your project today!
No agent or representative
is needed to become a member of this platform
TO GET STARTED?
2. Who Can Submit Their Projects
3. Review and Check Box To Accept Our Terms and Conditions
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BSI IP SHOWCASE / IP Registration Fee
19.99$Members of IP Showcase ... have the opportunity to make visible their content to film/streaming studios, global public audiences, advertisers, and collaborators.Valid for 6 months- Schedule 15 Min Consultation-1
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BSI IP SHOWCASE
Who Can Submit Their Projects
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No agent or representative is needed to become a member of this platform.
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See below for the 3 levels of projects being accepted.
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For more details and what happens if your project is requested, click here.
IP SHOWCASE / IOS is not a contest, competition, festival, or guarantee of representation, financing, production, distribution, sale, option, licensing, or other transaction. Projects may be presented and made available for consideration based on their content, format, genre, category, presentation materials, and relevance to specific content needs or requests.
SHOWCASE / BSI | IP OPEN SLATE (“IOS”), operated by BSI Films & Media LLC (“BSI”).
1. PURPOSE OF IOS
BSI | IP SHOWCASE / IOS is designed to provide creators with another professional pathway for presenting original scripts, content, and intellectual property to studios, producers, advertisers, publishers, media companies, and other content-focused decision-makers.
WHAT LEVEL IS YOUR SCRIPT AT
THREE CREATOR PRESENTATION LEVELS
Studio and Industry Executives Will Decide What Level Their Needs Are On A Given Day
LEVEL 1 — SCRIPT ONLY
The Creator has an original screenplay or script but does not currently have a developed presentation package.
What may be presented:
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Original screenplay/script
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Project title
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Genre and format
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Logline and/or synopsis
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Creator information
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Other approved project details
Benefit:
Provides the Creator with a professional opportunity to present the underlying story and IP even when the Creator does not yet have additional visual or development materials.
LEVEL 2 — SCRIPT + PROJECT PACKAGE
The Creator has developed the screenplay into a more complete presentation package.
The package may include:
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Screenplay/script
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Logline
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Synopsis
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Character information
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Treatment or project description
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Series information, where applicable
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Creator information
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Additional approved development or presentation materials
Benefit:
A more developed package can provide decision-makers with greater context regarding the story, characters, format, concept, audience, and potential development of the Project.
LEVEL 3 — SCRIPT + PROJECT PACKAGE + CONCEPT VIDEO / SHORT VIDEO
The Creator has a developed script and presentation package supplemented by a concept video, trailer, teaser, short scene, proof-of-concept, or other approved visual material.
The package may include:
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Screenplay/script
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Project presentation materials
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Logline and synopsis
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Character and story information
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Concept video, teaser, trailer, short video clip, or proof-of-concept
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Other approved visual or supporting materials
Benefit:
Additional visual material may give a decision-maker a more immediate understanding of the Project's tone, concept, characters, visual direction, audience, and potential production approach.
Important: The availability of additional materials does not guarantee that a Project will receive greater consideration, selection, contact, or a transaction.
Why a Mandate is Important for Writers, Content Creators, and IP Owners
4.. CONTENT REQUESTS, MANDATES & PROJECT MATCHING
BSI may receive or become aware of specific content needs, project mandates, genre requests, formats, story types, concepts, or other areas of interest communicated by studios, producers, media companies, advertisers, publishers, or other qualified content decision-makers.
When a specific content request or mandate is received, BSI may review Projects presented through IOS to identify Projects that appear to correspond with the requested genre, format, storyline, concept, subject matter, audience, or other stated requirements.
A Creator does not automatically “get in” or receive access to a studio simply because the Creator has submitted a Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3 Project. The presentation level determines the amount and type of information available about the Project; it does not determine whether a studio will pursue or review the Project.
BSI may identify Projects that appear to match a particular request and may present those Projects to the requesting studio or other decision-maker for potential consideration.
The requesting studio, producer, or other decision-maker—not BSI—will determine which Projects it wishes to review, discuss, pursue, develop, option, license, purchase, or otherwise consider.
This process is intended to create an additional pathway for relevant Projects to reach appropriate content decision-makers while preserving the decision-making authority of the requesting party.
5. WHY ADDITIONAL PROJECT MATERIALS MATTER
The three presentation levels are designed to allow creators to present their Projects at different stages of development.
A Script Only presentation communicates the core written project.
A Script + Project Package provides additional information that may help a decision-maker understand the story, characters, format, concept, and development potential.
A Script + Project Package + Concept Video/Short Video adds a visual component that may help communicate tone, visual direction, characters, scenes, audience, and the overall creative approach.
More presentation materials may provide greater context, but no presentation level guarantees selection or consideration by a studio or other decision-maker.
About BSI | IP SHOWCASE ... BSI | IP OPEN SLATE PLATFORM
BSI | IP SHOWCASE is an industry-focused discovery platform designed to provide entertainment executives, producers, buyers, advertisers, publishers, and other content decision-makers with a centralized, efficient way to discover and evaluate original content and intellectual property (IP).
The platform evolved from systems BSI has developed and utilized with corporate and studio clients enabling them to monitor assigned projects, facilitate collaboration, track production progress, and help keep projects on schedule and within budget. Through that experience, industry executives and decision makers spoke of the growing need for a more efficient way for creative and development executives to access and quickly evaluate new content.
BSI | IP SHOWCASE addresses that need by creating a centralized environment where industry users can review original scripts, books, concepts, podcasts, series ideas, and other IP projects are organized, showcased, and made visible for efficient discovery. Rather than requiring executives to search across multiple sources, the platform is designed to make relevant content easier to locate based on specific genres, formats, and content needs.
At the same time, the platform provides writers, creators, authors, and IP owners—particularly those without agents or industry representation—with an opportunity to present their projects in an environment designed for industry visibility and consideration.
BSI | IP SHOWCASE is not a contest, festival, or website listing for scripts. It is an industry-oriented discovery platform built to make visible original content and IP projects for industry executives and media decision makers actively seeking original concepts, content, and IP projects that have captured the attention of various audiences.
READY TO SHOWCASE YOUR IP?
BSI has expanded its established content discovery system to create a dedicated pathway for independent writers, content creators, authors, and IP owners to professionally showcase their work and make their projects more visible and accessible for discovery and review by industry professionals in the U.S. and internationally.
Your story is ready to be seen.
READY TO GET STARTED?
2. REVIEW & ACCEPT our Terms and Conditions / Read and acknowledge the Terms & Conditions and Creator Submission Agreement.
WELCOME TO THE SHOWCASE
Once your submission is received and prepared, your project can be presented on BSI | IP SHOWCASE for discovery.
Have Questions?
We’re happy to help. Contact us for more information about BSI | IP SHOWCASE.
WHAT IS BSI IP SHOWCASE AND WHAT IS IT'S PURPOSE?
YOUR SCRIPT ISN’T JUST A SCREENPLAY. IT’S AN IP ASSET.
BSI IP Showcase is designed to address a fundamental problem for writers and content creators: great original content can have significant potential, but it cannot create opportunities if no one sees or knows it exists.
In today's industry a creator’s work when submitted to studios is a single document limited to a number of industry professionals. This step is extremely important to submit according to their guidelines.
BSI IP Showcase takes a broader approach by making both your screenplay visible for review and evaluation and your concept that is adapted to other formats allowing you to market your IP directly to a domestic and global public audience.
This expands and increases your opportunity to make your content and other formats of your screenplay visible to multiple audiences ... industry professionals.
JOIN TODAY... BSI IP SHOWCASE?
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Why Writers Are Adapting Their Scripts To Books
There's a reason Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, Kevin Costner, Stephen King, and many more writers have made adaptation a cornerstone of their promotional strategies for their scripts. ·
The reasons are: As a published author, having a book version of your script provides you with a separate business opportunity that you control. It enables you to promote the book version of your script directly to a domestic and global audience across multiple platforms, without needing approval.
Getting started:
Adapting your script to a book
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Click here to speak with our executive producer
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Click here to review our adaptation plans and Do It Yourself steps for Adaptation of Scripts and Books
As a published book author, having a book version of your script provides you with a separate business opportunity that you control to promote the book version of the script directly to a domestic and global audience across multiple platforms.
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The most difficult first step is already completed. You have a script.
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Your script lays out the foundation for adapting it to a manuscript
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There's no pitching
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No approval process
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You control the process from beginning to end
Getting Started: Adapting Your Script To A Manuscript
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Let us help you.
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Click here to speak with our executive producer Susan B. Flanagan to discuss details of your script and how our One-on-One sessions, templates, and guidance can you adapt your script to a manuscript.
During your call with Susan, the following will be discussed:
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Do you want the novel ghostwritten or co-written?
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What will the title be?
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Review of your script.
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Discussion regarding your vision compared to how your script is written.
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Strength of marketability of the genre.
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The number of pages you want the novel to have.
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Is it a series of novels?
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How many primary characters are there?
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Is the lead ... male or female?
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Q&A regarding our process and your vision of how your storyline can best reach the audience you want targeted.
Adapting your script into a book is a 2-phase process.
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Phase1. Adapting your script to a manuscript. BSI Films, led by our Executive Producer Susan Flanagan—an Emmy® Award-winning writer, best-selling author, and one of the leading adaptation specialists chosen by major film and streaming studios will adapt and write your manuscript.
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Plase2. BSI Films along with our affiliate Word First Publishing will provide all of the professional resources to publish, distribute, and market your book to a domestic and global audience.
Schedule a call with our Executive Producer
Why are the first 10 pages of your script critical to your Script Being Accepted or Passed On
Note: When your script is accepted for review. The Executives of the company you've submitted to, can tell within the first 1-10 pages if a script based on current marketing trends, the genre, the log line, and the level of writing skills the writer has, if a script meets their needs.
Answer: This is where your writing skills have to go to another level and include the following:
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Research has shown there is an extremely short amount of time a film or series has to grab, hold, and capture the imagination of an audience. That’s why most films and series tend to excite and grab the attention of the audience within the first 2 pages (first 1-2 mins) and the reason the first 10 pages of your script is so important (think of how the first scene in Law & Order opens).
What industry executives are looking for in the first 10 pages of your Script Polish
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Note: In all cases, if your opening scene in the first few pages of your script does not capture and hold the attention of the Development Executive, odds are the review will end.
What are the guidelines for writing and formatting your storyline Development Executives will seek to identify in the first 10 pages of your script.
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High Concept: What is the hook that makes the audience want to keep watching? (a.) example: think Law & Order or any genre that has some type of action happen in the first page.
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What is the CQ (Central Question of the story.) The script begins with an action, that creates the central question "who, what, or why." (a.) example: scene opens with an Amour Car being robbed, but only a box was taken (why.)
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What Quadrant Level is the script? Quadrant is defined as what demographic does it appeal to? - A movie that appeals to all four major demographics i.e. male, female, under and over 18.ale, and both over and under the age of 25 is a level 4.
Do it yourself... Pitching, Promoting, and Showcasing
your script directly to studio execs and marketing the book version of your script to a global audience with or without assistance
Writers wanting to pitch, promote, and showcase their scripts directly to studios and bring public attention to their scripts ...
... In addition to submitting your script to film/streaming studios. There are additional pathways studios are choosing to track and review content writers are promoting, pitching, and showcasing directly to the public.
To keep pace with the public’s options for viewing content over multiple platforms and scripts written in other formats. Major film/streaming studios are expanding their reach for content to include the following:
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Studios are expanding their reach for content to include public popularity of books. Having a book version of your script stating on the back cover or inside “Adapted from the screenplay titled xxx”. This informs studios there’s a manuscript and script available (i.e. scripts adapted to books, graphic novels, children's books, audio books etc.)
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Studios have also increased their focus and tracking of what trends and interest the public has in content written and promoted by writers ... (i.e. promoting your script using ... concept videos, trailers, and/or clips posted on YouTube channels, digital, social and media platforms, Pod Casts, Facebook, TikTok, etc.).
Note: Studios and writers have a heightened interest in scripts adapted to books.
Also, studios are tracking public interest in content seek unique and original scripts also gives writers additional pathways to pitch, promote, and showcase their script directly to studio execs and simultaneously a domestic and global audience.
When Submitting Your Script To Film & Streaming Studios:
Studio Execs want to see more than your script
Your Script Presentation Package is reviewed first to determine if the review process continues or if your script is "Passed" on.
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Additional information that needs to be included in this package
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Click here to view an example of our Development Presentation
Why is a Script Development Package needed? How does it differ from a Pitch Deck?
Answer: This document provides specific information about how your script reaches the creative, audience, print, and programming trends they want to target.
What is the difference between a pitch deck and a Development Presentation?
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A Pitch Deck is focused on the creative information about a script. Along with mentioning potential cast members, a comparison to similar movies, and other creative factors.
Click here: Studio changes in their script submission process include the following
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A Development Presentation is focused on how a script appeals to the audience they want to target, and highlights how it is able to meet its, production, marketing, and programming needs.
Development Presentation is a term used by insiders, to distinguish it from a pitch deck. The term Pitch Deck is still used by writers... and that's ok.
Note: It does not matter what name you call the package you send them. However, it is important the information you provide meets the current needs of the company it's submitted to.
What To Include In Your Script Development Presentation
If assistance is needed schedule a call for more information: BSI is a Prime Vendor for major film and streaming studios. Our executive producers have the professional experience and access for helping independents compete on a professional level when seeking production or licensing deals with film and streaming studios.
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Submitting your script. Our executive team has the experience, resources, and capabilities that meet industry standards and requirements for submitting scripts to major studios, streaming, film, cable, and broadcast companies.
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One Sheet: Is a one-page line-item description of what your script is about and details specific to how your script meets their production needs and targets the audience they want to reach.
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Budget: Top sheet budget that is created by a Line Producer familiar with cost that are Associated with the genre and production to produce your script.
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Script Polish (speak with our executive producer to include a script polish): Most important to remember, the first 10 pages are critical to your script being accepted for further review or ... rejected. It should also include the basics such as a thorough analysis, evaluation and comparison of what's written ... compared to the vision of the writer.
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A Concept Video is not included in this package but can be added. Although you no longer need to have talent attached to your project having a visual (Concept Video) is highly recommended but not mandatory.
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Optional: Script Analysis Report: is a one-page analysis of your script.
Our Executive and Creative Producers
Meet Industry Requirements
For Developing and Submitting Scripts To
Film, Streaming, Cable, and Broadcast Companies
Our executive team has the experience and resources that meet industry requirements for submitting scripts to major studios, streaming, film, cable, and broadcast companies.
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Susan B. Flanagan our lead Executive Producer, Emmy® Award Winning Writer, Award Winning Producer, Best-Selling Author, and Script Adaptation Specialist.
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Slavik I.A. is our Creative Executive, Director, and Digital Artist Supervisor. He continues to contribute to visually creating and producing some of Hollywood's major box office hits such as: Morbius, Black Panther Wakanda Forever, Madame Web, Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformer: Dark of the Moon, and more.
Script Polish and Development
Susan is our Executive Producer, Emmy® Award Winning Writer, Producer, Showrunner, and Adaptation Specialist.
Susan is also the Sr. Creative Executive and Writer for our Prime Vendor division. As a Creative Executive and Script Consultant she works directly with streaming, film, and broadcast Executives to provide objective analysis and development of scripts prior to them being sent to committee for approval or pre-production.
All scripts are polished by Susan, and she will apply the same attention and standards when working with writers and Independents, that is provided our industry clients.
• Rates for writers/Independents start at $795.00 and up.
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To get started please contact our Executive Producer, Susan B. Flanagan.
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When polishing your script for submitting to a Development Executive, in addition to an evaluation and edits (with the writer's permission), the primary focus is to polish your script and ensure what's written matches your vision.
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The next step is to address the standards and requirements industry executives will focus.
Note: All companies that receive scripts submitted to them, to start will focus on first 10 pages of your script. In nearly all reviews, the first 10 pages of your script, will determine if the review continues.
Why are the first 10 pages of your script critical to determining if your script is accepted for further review or passed on?
Note: When your script is accepted for review. The Executives of the company you've submitted to, can tell within the first 1-10 pages if a script based on current marketing trends, the genre, the log line, and the level of writing skills the writer has, if a script meets their needs.
Answer: This is where your writing skills have to go to another level and include the following:
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Research has shown there is an extremely short amount of time a film or series has to grab, hold, and capture the imagination of an audience. That’s why most films and series tend to excite and grab the attention of the audience within the first 2 pages (first 1-2 mins) and the reason the first 10 pages of your script is so important (think of how the first scene in Law & Order opens).
What industry executives are looking for in the first 10 pages of your Script Polish
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Note: In all cases, if your opening scene in the first few pages of your script does not capture and hold the attention of the Development Executive, odds are the review will end.
What are the guidelines for writing and formatting your storyline Development Executives will seek to identify in the first 10 pages of your script.
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High Concept: What is the hook that makes the audience want to keep watching? (a.) example: think Law & Order or any genre that has some type of action happen in the first page.
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What is the CQ (Central Question of the story.) The script begins with an action, that creates the central question "who, what, or why." (a.) example: scene opens with an Amour Car being robbed, but only a box was taken (why.)
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What Quadrant Level is the script? Quadrant is defined as what demographic does it appeal to? - A movie that appeals to all four major demographics i.e. male, female, under and over 18.ale, and both over and under the age of 25 is a level 4.
Our production division is led by Slavik I.A, our Executive Producer, Director, Premier Previsualization, Animation and Digital Artist Supervisor. Slavik has helped produce and create visuals some of the biggest box office hits in recent years, such as Morbius, Gemini Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, Falling Skies, The Mummy, Tron, Transformers, and other major box office hits.
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Creating a Concept Video Starts at $1,200 - $1,950.00 U.S. dollars and up.
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Payment options are available.
CONTACT US IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
How The Studios Submission Process Works
Short version:
Steps studios take once your script is received for review
Note: All projects will first be reviewed by a company’s legal division. Once it is determined you meet the required criteria to submit scripts, the following steps are taken.
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Forms will be issued and must be signed, before the process begins to accept and send your project to their development division.
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Your Development Package along with your script will be a key factors BSI will use in identifying companies your project is submitted to. All studios have their own production and programming needs that varies week to week and often that will determine what projects are submitted for review.
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All projects submitted by new or well-known producers go through that particular studio process, for review and evaluation. And yes, even well-known producers get rejected.
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Streaming, film studios, cable, and broadcast companies have complete control over what projects they will accept, and when or if a project will be reviewed.
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All companies do not produce all types of genres. Therefore, your project may not be submitted to all studios.
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All studios make their own rules for the type of content they will accept for review or reject.
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If a project is "Passed" on, the company it was submitted to in most cases may or may not contact us. They only contact producers if they're interested in the content.
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We will submit a project to multiple companies if the script meets the needs of studios we want to submit to.
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If a project is "Passed" on, it does not mean the script does not have entertainment value. Most times, it means they don't have a need for it that time. In some cases, it may be sent to their inventory.
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Once your script has been submitted, there are no guarantees your project will be accepted for review or get produced.
Note: at some studios our executives have contacts we are able to communicate with about projects. They have asked their names and contact information not be shared with anyone at anytime.
Note: Keep in mind it took Steven Spielberg 17 years to get Shindler's List produced. Within those 17 years he wrote a lot of other block buster movies. He will be the first to tell you, keep pushing your script, but don't stop writing more scripts.
CONTACT US IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS