Ways to Market your Movie Script

Evan Marquisee has posted ten tips on marketing your screenplay.   I like his idea of doing your own movies.  He also suggests posting a logline on Inktip or working directly with a producer/director.  Another one outside the list is making a novel of the screenplay and use that to increase the likelihood that the book will become a movie. 

I have been working on the latter.  I found I like writing scripts more than writing a novel.  I am too impatient filling in the details and I want to get directly into the action.  This may change as I get older.

Skip Press also has advice for the aspiring writer of any genre.  I highly recommend his book, Write What You Want Sell What You Write.  He covers writing for magazines, fiction, nonfiction and screenwriting.

The Writerunner Blog is also full of useful tips about the process of putting a script together. 

This site by Gerald Jones has a list of contacts in the Movie Making industry.  It is a bare bones website with lots of information about contacting people in book and movie industry.

One of my favorite writers, Pat Proft wrote and directed Wrongfully Accused.  Throughout the movie he incorporates locations near his hometown of Colombia Heights, Minnesota into the script. Knowing the places adds to the fun.

http://www.impawards.com/1998/wrongfully_accused_ver1.html

Tiger Swallowtail butterfly in flight

I shot this video while watching cottonwood seeds fall from a neighbors tree.  A tiger swallowtail was flying around another tree in the neighborhood.  I slowed the video to 1/4 speed to actually see the wing beats.   

Bing Bang Theory interview

Actress Mayim Bialik from the Big Bang Theory gave a candide interview on the parallels of her TV chracter with her real life as a PhD Neuroscientist on NPRs Talk of the Nation Science Friday with Ira Flatow. 

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Her background has allowed Mayim to give depth and accuracy to her character on the show. With the filming of the show it also allows her better work life balance than she would have working strictly as a neuroscientist.

Update: The Hollywood Reporter has a very good behind the scenes look at the cast and crew of the Big Bang Theory at the end of the 2012 season.

Mayim Balik also gives an interview about nerd on nerd romances at Comic Con in 2012.

Full cast 44 min. interview at Comic Con 2012  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eazv2B04xHg
Working with a variety of people from PhD scientists to students and artists makes my job very interesting. I can relate to the characters on this show not in their mixed up relationships as much as their joy on working problems or throwing themselves fully into a project. The passionate intensity to discover new things or to make the mundane really cool makes me want to get up in the morning.