BSI Films is a Prime Vendor for major Hollywood studios, streaming, cable, and broadcast companies. We offer Independents the same professional script writing/editing, film/series/content development and production services we provide our industry clients.
Our division is led by our Executive Producer, Susan B. Flanagan, an Emmy® Award Winning Writer, Award Winning Producer, Showrunner, Best-Selling Author, and Primary Writer chosen by Major Hollywood Studios for the Adaptation of Scripts / Books services.
For Independents wanting to submit their scripts to investors and industry executives, our executive team has the ability to present projects that meet their entertainment and business needs.
Previsualization & Digital animation by our EP Slavik I.A.
Independents
Susan B Flanagan, our EP, Emmy® Award Winning Writer, Award Winning Producer, showrunner and Slavic Anishchenko, EP, Director, and Digital Artist Supervisor of our Prime Vendor division, offer Independents the same writing, and production services we provide our streaming, cable, broadcast and major studio clients.
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To Submit Your Script To
Studios, Streaming Companies, Cable and Broadcast Networks
A Development Package Is Required
To get started - Schedule a call to speak with our executive producer Susan Flanagan
Our Development Package includes:
Pay Later and/or Other Payment Plans Are Available
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Our Development Package Includes
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Script Polish - A Script Polish is needed for all scripts before they are submitted or pitched to investors, streaming, broadcast and industry executives. Our evaluation ensures what is written reflects your vision, that the structure has a flow from beginning to end, and that it appeals to the entertainment and marketing needs of the execs it will be pitched to.
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Budget: Top sheet budget - created by line producer familiar with cost that are specific to production and budget needs of who it will be submitted to.
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Executive One Sheet - Includes a summary that highlights information regarding the entertainment and business value of your project.
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Pitching/Submitting Your Script - Our team will identify companies we believe your script meets their specific needs for production, and programming requirements. Note: streaming, studios, cable, and broadcast stations set the standards and guidelines for submitting projects that all producers must follow. For 3 months BSI will assist in submitting your project to industry executives expressing a willingness to accept, evaluate and review your project based on their rules, terms, production and programming needs for purposes of licensing, production deal or producing.
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Optional: Industry executives would like to see any support information that highlights the entertainment and business value of your project, i.e., talent/director attached, books with a following, YouTube channel, social media following, etc.
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Optional - Concept Video is not included in this package but can be paid for separately: Although our Concept Video (Click here for more information) is not included in the Development Package, it is available to you at a 30% discount off our standard fee. A Concept Video with a run-time of 30 seconds to just under a minute, is the most effective, inexpensive visual to submit to industry executives and investors. Insiders use videos as part of their presentations to highlight the entertainment value of their projects and demonstrate how it meets their programming needs.
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Funding - If seeking investors or funding for your project and you do not have an agent, talent, director or equity funding attached to your project, securing funding will become an even greater challenge. Scripts that meet the standards set by investors will be considered for including in film slates our executives submit to investment groups.
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For information about funding and/or production deals, click here for our Q&A with investor Syd Shaffer
BSI Films is led by Susan B. Flanagan our Creative Executive, Emmy® Award Winning Writer,
Award Winning Producer, Showrunner and Lead Editor for Adapting Books and Scripts
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Rates For Our Script Polish Starts at $795.00 - For details click here
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Script Polish is included in our Development Package that starts at $1,295.00
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When is a Script Polish needed: A Script Polish is needed for all scripts before they are submitted or pitched to investors, streaming, broadcast and industry executives. For a detail description of a script polish, see below.
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Our script polish follows the same guidelines and standards investors, streaming, broadcast and industry clients requires Susan to adhere to, when polishing a script prior to them reviewing, approving it for funding or sending a script to series.
Our Script Polish includes
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A review and evaluation to determine if what is written reflects your vision, appeals to the audience it is targeted for and meets the needs of the industry executives you plan to submit it to.
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Evaluate the flow, structure and strengths of the beginning, middle and ending of the storyline. We also perform an analysis of each scene to determine the smoothness of the transition to the next scene and it's overall impact on the story.
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Where needed, enhance the dialogue to highlight the genre or a character’s approach to a specific scene and it's appeal to the targeted audience.
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Look for scenes to cut or trim. Focus on dialogue that can be dropped or trimmed to enhance the scene description.
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Evaluate the pace: A combination of dropping, switching, or reworking scenes to enhance the flow of the story line.
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Depending on the genre: determine which scenes a character's actions can be increased to match the genre, i.e., for a comedy does it need more jokes, if drama does it need more tension, if action, does it need more violence etc.
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Final review and edits of entire script after all of above steps have been completed, to determine if it meets the vision of the writer and business or programming needs of the party it's being submitted to.
Producing a Concept Video Starts at $1,850.00 U.S. dollars and up
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Pay later and payment arrangements are available.