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No. The general one.

I sent a script to "Baby Cow" and they said that the idea was nice but i wrote too much dialogue.... he said that i should make my comedy a bit darker and let the audience follow with their own interpretations as well as trying to follow the intense script. so i listened and am cutting down my script a bit. Who knows... maybe one day i'll get it right...

Well I got given no advice just simply what I have Stated.
Is that a typical thanks but no thanks response?

Quote: charley rance @ July 5, 2007, 10:48 PM

Well I got given no advice just simply what I have Stated.
Is that a typical thanks but no thanks response?

I'd leave it there, wait for a response but in the meantime send the stuff to other people too.

Baby Cow are quite decent I found that Ric was ok and John You've just gotta keep sending stuff... Hattrick... Tiger Aspect.. Noel Gay and that say nowt at all Pozzitive are good as well "but at end oh day" they want quality stuff... that new Joanna Lumly one on BEEB two.. Steve Coogan's involved in that... so basically they want deep dark comedy if that helps . but nothing Charles Manson or Freddy West "I be thinking"

Banal question here: when you email material (which I usually don't do) do you send it as an attachment, or in the body of the email?

I sent as an attachment.

Quote: charley rance @ July 5, 2007, 11:38 PM

I sent as an attachment.

That leaves me out then. I'm technically inept!

You're all lucky lol, I enquired waiting for a year and apparently they already replied with a flat rejection. I asked for any feedback and they just said they can't because of numbers. Oh well...

Thinking of sending something off to them. Quick question
So they want the treatment right? They also want a covering letter yeah? What do I put on there? And do I send them as like one big word document right? Covering letter > Treatment > 10 pages of script?
And I'm guessing they don't accept Final Draft documents? Because I'm going to lose all my scene and page numbers by exporting it to Word. How about a PDF?

I sent mine via E-mail in the first instance to John...give that a curly whirly its a lot easier... they get back pretty sharpish you never know... saves on stamps.

I've never, ever finished anything to send it off. But if I ever do, I'll keep all this in mind.

Quote: Reiss Ellesse @ July 6, 2007, 2:32 PM

I sent mine via E-mail in the first instance to John...give that a curly whirly its a lot easier... they get back pretty sharpish you never know... saves on stamps.

That's how I'm planning on doing it. All the stuff I talked about above still applies doesn't it?

Quote: socknose @ July 6, 2007, 2:30 PM

Thinking of sending something off to them. Quick question
So they want the treatment right? They also want a covering letter yeah? What do I put on there? And do I send them as like one big word document right? Covering letter > Treatment > 10 pages of script?
And I'm guessing they don't accept Final Draft documents? Because I'm going to lose all my scene and page numbers by exporting it to Word. How about a PDF?

A covering letter explains "who you are, what you've done and what you can do, what you're goals are, etc."

And in my opinion you went to put them all in an attachment, but as seperate files. I also send people my work in PDF's.

I'm about to send two pilots off to these guys and I'm just wondering about something. The script, the treatment and the covering letter are all separate attachments right? And does the front cover of the script count as one of the ten pages?
Cheers

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