Hi,
I'm new so hello everyone!
I have a question about a covering letter. I've been in touch with a producer about my script, he seems keen which is great. When I e-mail him my script, I'm wondering what I should put in the body of the e-mail, do I briefly describe my idea, or go into more details about it?
Is anyone able to give me examples of what I should write? I would appreciate your help.
Thank you, and good to be here!
Quote: Lord Meldrum @ January 11 2009, 2:11 PM GMTHi,
I'm new so hello everyone!
I have a question about a covering letter. I've been in touch with a producer about my script, he seems keen which is great. When I e-mail him my script, I'm wondering what I should put in the body of the e-mail, do I briefly describe my idea, or go into more details about it?
Is anyone able to give me examples of what I should write? I would appreciate your help.
Thank you, and good to be here!
Dear Lord, unless the guy is a bit more specific, I would send him a brief synopsis of your script and if he wants more he will let you know. Good luck with it. 
Here's what I usually send.
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DEAR ARSEHOLE.
I have attached the most awesome motherf**ker of a script you will ever read. You won't understand most of it, as it has a reading age of 8 yrs plus, but you can rest assured it is a work of genius. If you stupidly fail to commission this you are throwing away a cabinet full of BAFTAs. Not that you would recognise a BAFTA from a suppurating dog's cock given your previous track record.
OK so what is it? Let me deal with that by telling you what it's not. For one thing, it's not the usual clag of puerile turd that normally clogs up the diseased bowels of your putrid network. For another, it's not f**king cheap. I want good money for this. I spent several hours working on it when I could have been f**king your Mum via her Gumtree ad, and I expect to be compensated.
And I'm not asking. I'm f**king telling you. I know where you live, your so-called "place of work", which shitty coffee shops you take your c**ty MacBook into so you can sit there braying into your Nokia Bluetooth Spazphone about "media convergence" and which of your desperate underpaid interns you are planning to rape tomorrow night.
If you do not greenlight this project within seven days, with all seven model-turned-actresses on board, so help me I will track you down, smash your teeth out with a brick, lobotomise you with an ice-pick, and leave you to rot in a vegetative living hell in the studio of Steve Wright's afternoon radio show.
Yours,
Seefacts
PS Do you think this would work better as a comedy drama?
Quote: Griff @ January 11 2009, 3:19 PM GMTHere's what I usually send.
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DEAR ARSEHOLE.
I have attached the most awesome motherf**ker of a script you will ever read. You won't understand most of it, as it has a reading age of 8 yrs plus, but you can rest assured it is a work of genius. If you stupidly fail to commission this you are throwing away a cabinet full of BAFTAs. Not that you would recognise a BAFTA from a suppurating dog's cock given your previous track record.
OK so what is it. Let me deal with that by telling you what it's not. For one thing, it's not the usual clag of puerile turd that normally clogs up the diseased bowels of your putrid network. For another, it's not f**king cheap. I want good money for this. I spent several hours working on it when I could have been f**king your Mum via her Gumtree ad, and I expect to be compensated.
And I'm not asking. I'm f**king telling you. I know where you live, your so-called "place of work", which shitty coffee shops you take your c**ty MacBook into while you sit there braying into your Nokia Bluetooth Spazphone about "media convergence" and which of your desperate underpaid interns you are planning to rape tomorrow night.
If you do not greenlight this project within seven days, with all seven model-turned-actresses on board, so help me I will track you down, smash your teeth out with a brick, lobotomise you with an ice-pick, and leave you to rot in a vegetative living hell in the studio of Steve Wright's afternoon radio show.
Yours,
Seefacts
PS Do you think this would work better as a comedy drama?
Tee-hee! 
But here seriously folks.
I assume that he knows the outline idea at this stage or he wouldn't have asked for the script.
I would personally just send it as an attachment (word.doc - final draft or whatever) with a brief covering note on the email.
Dear Tony Hares
Please find the script we have spoken about attached.
Blenkinsop.
At the end of the day the script will or won't shine through, and although a CV and other stuff about you is good to add I wouldn't worry as if you don't have one - it's not the end of the world. I would let my script do the explaining as that's what it's meant to do.
Quote: Lord Meldrum @ January 11 2009, 2:11 PM GMTHi,
I'm new so hello everyone!
I have a question about a covering letter. I've been in touch with a producer about my script, he seems keen which is great. When I e-mail him my script, I'm wondering what I should put in the body of the e-mail, do I briefly describe my idea, or go into more details about it?
Is anyone able to give me examples of what I should write? I would appreciate your help.
Thank you, and good to be here!
Ask him what he wants.
If you have already been in touch with the producer and he seems keen to see your script then he must already have an idea of what it's about. Therefore I would simply email -
Producer chap,
He is my script as discussed.
Please make it, I'm desperate. (this line is optional)
Regards,
Lord M.
And don't forget to attach the script! (this is not optional but necessary)
Def.
Quote: Griff @ January 11 2009, 3:19 PM GMTHere's what I usually send.
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DEAR ARSEHOLE.
I have attached the most awesome motherf**ker of a script you will ever read. You won't understand most of it, as it has a reading age of 8 yrs plus, but you can rest assured it is a work of genius. If you stupidly fail to commission this you are throwing away a cabinet full of BAFTAs. Not that you would recognise a BAFTA from a suppurating dog's cock given your previous track record.
OK so what is it? Let me deal with that by telling you what it's not. For one thing, it's not the usual clag of puerile turd that normally clogs up the diseased bowels of your putrid network. For another, it's not f**king cheap. I want good money for this. I spent several hours working on it when I could have been f**king your Mum via her Gumtree ad, and I expect to be compensated.
And I'm not asking. I'm f**king telling you. I know where you live, your so-called "place of work", which shitty coffee shops you take your c**ty MacBook into so you can sit there braying into your Nokia Bluetooth Spazphone about "media convergence" and which of your desperate underpaid interns you are planning to rape tomorrow night.
If you do not greenlight this project within seven days, with all seven model-turned-actresses on board, so help me I will track you down, smash your teeth out with a brick, lobotomise you with an ice-pick, and leave you to rot in a vegetative living hell in the studio of Steve Wright's afternoon radio show.
Yours,
Seefacts
PS Do you think this would work better as a comedy drama?
I sent you that in confidence!!
On topic: Say who you are, what credits or not you have, tell them you're sending it due to their previous body of production work. Describe in one line what the idea is and that you look forward to hearing from them.
That's it.
Yeah id agree
Quote: Mike Dan-Carter @ January 11 2009, 7:34 PM GMTYeah id agree
As does the ego and super-ego, eh? 
Apols for the poor psychiatry gag, I've been watching too much Frasier.
Closing this thread as there are other 'Covering Letter' style threads already on here. See this for an example. https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/8829
If it doesn't answer your query, Lord M, use the Search facility on the menu bar above to locate the other threads.