hi I'm Jared Drake and I'm gonna talk to
you about submitting your script to
movie studios if you're sending a story
or script to a movie studio they're
probably gonna ask you to submit it with
the release form basically what that
says is look if our studio comes out
with a movie that kind of resembles your
script you're not gonna hold us
responsible you're not gonna sue us for
stealing your idea it's kind of goofy
you know it's a little unsettling but
from their point of view it makes sense
they can't have everybody that submitted
scripts to them coming and I'm saying
hey you know my movie had a character
named Joe when submitting to a studio
try and find somebody there that you
want to read your script and attention
your script or to them even put on your
envelope put requested materials by
so-and-so so you know that the that the
script will get on that person's desk or
their assistants desk at least the last
thing you need to do is submit a script
to a studio or a production company
which is generally and have it sit on
the front you know the front desk the
best way to get your script to a studio
is to know somebody there or have a
connection now that is where managers
and agents come into the ballgame
because they are the connection so try
and find an agent if you can that's one
big piece of the pie now when submitting
your script to anyone don't think that
you're gonna do something different and
something special and you're gonna put
it all in colored people or paper draw
some freely stuff on it or make some
different text or submit it with
pictures or whatever just follow the
format meaning white pages courier font
make sure the margins match up to what's
expected in the industry
just a plain simple cover page title
page with you know blah blah blah blah
by so-and-so and that's
don't don't get fancy with submitting
your script people do not like that and
the reason behind it is look if your
scripts good the words are gonna speak
for themselves you don't have nobody's
gonna be fooled by fanciness and
nobody's gonna think that oh wow look
this person really cares about the
material look how much they put into to
making this something special that
doesn't fly like you if anything they're
gonna be turned off because they're
gonna say why that because that person's
spending time doing something stupid
versus rereading their material I'm
making their material better it's just
it's it's demeaning and it'll get you
booted right out the door now the proper
thing in submitting a script is the
pages are three a little punched and you
submit it with these with these with
these these these brass brackets and you
can buy them at Staples or you know any
home office store but what's funny is
although you have three holes you only
use two people that use the third one
you know it's an amateur you know what
somebody that doesn't know what they're
doing
oftentimes I've worked at companies
where somebody submits the script and
they put three records one in each hole
and they just throw the script out
automatically because the person they're
like this guy doesn't know what he's
doing so you put one in the top and you
put one in the bottom and you leave the
middle one blank I don't know why but
that's how you do it so format