Let’s get real here - there are a lot of elements that go into a successful screenwriting career, but the scripts themselves are only one part of that. The other elements come down to marketing. Everything from your concept, to the logline, to the elevator pitch, to the list of companies you want to reach out to. All these elements go into a successful career, and mastering them is often the difference between building and maintaining good connections and not.
What makes a marketable concept? Is it something you can identify beforehand, or does the market dictate what is and isn’t marketable? Tune in with Ryan Busse to learn all about how to craft your next concept for maximum commercial appeal!
Ryan Busse is a producer and graduate of San Diego State University. Prior to partnering with Meinen in STORY Collective, he was an executive for Allison Shearmur Productions, where he worked closely with Shearmur on the company’s full slate of film and television projects, including Lucasfilm’s ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, Lionsgate’s NERVE and POWER RANGERS, and Disney’s THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN and CINDERELLA. Busse began his career at WME in the Motion Picture Talent Department. Together with Meinen, Busse runs STORY Collective, a film and television production company founded in 2018.
Busse produced the Christmas musical feature JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM which Sony AFFIRM released worldwide in November 2023, and has film and television projects at major studios in various stages of development and production, including the upcoming Syrian refugee drama THE STRANGERS’ CASE which made its world premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival in February 2024.
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