Breaking Into Hollywood – How Do I Translate The Entertainment Trades Into Project Sales?
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powerful development guidance for your own projects.
ACTION PLAN: Scan the trades for talent and story success stories and see what equally compelling “headlines” you could write to promote your own projects. Do you have more work to do to develop the project?
BONUS ROUND: Write the headlines – and send them to your focus group to see if they want to see that show!
Trade-Up Tip #5: Gather Insider Information
I call this “Room Wisdom.” These are articles that give you explanations of how our business works that help you get inside the minds of the studio, network and production execs you are pitching. For example, the Hollywood Reporter recently ran an article called “Ad Ratings To Gain At Upfront,” explaining that advertisers increasingly want to base the ad dollars they commit to a network on ratings for the
