If readers aren’t grabbed by your story in the first 15 pages, they may not keep reading. Submit the first 15 pages of your script and have a 15-minute story notes call with the executive of your choice. This call will help you create a strong opening/act one to keep readers going until FADE OUT.
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Keep it punchy, moving, and true to you. Have visuals that bring the world you're writing to life, especially if it's a world most people aren't familiar with. It also helps executives from checking their phones. Have fun with it! Make a supplementary playlist or something else that feels organic to your series. For my series, I got my development deal after soft pitching it in a general with a ton of enthusiasm.
Half-hour streaming, cable, network, multi-cam, single cam. Big, fun weirdo comedies. Anything with a heart. Messy characters who can't get their lives together. Coming of age stories. Female-driven series and features. Musically-driven series and features. Rom coms. Silly, raunchy comedies.
Procedurals, mainly because I've never written one.
Alex Zaragoza is a television writer, producer, and journalist based in Los Angeles. She wrote on Amazon Freevee's PRIMO created by Shea Serrano and executive produced by Mike Schur and NBC's LOPEZ VS. LOPEZ. She's also in development on a series with a major studio and director/producer based on on her years as a punk teen on the U.S.-Mexico border. As a culture journalist, Alex has written and edited for VICE, LA Times, NPR, Teen Vogue, Bloomberg, and others. On most days you can find her thinking too hard about reality TV, how smart crows are, and about the lady that runs Club Chalamet, and other such things.
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