There's so much to accomplish in the first act of a feature. Worse, if the reader isn't hooked by page 15, they'll likely stop reading. For the First 30 Consultation, you'll submit the first 30 pages of your feature or one-hour pilot script, and then have a 30-minute story notes call with the executive. They will help you boost your hook and refine your set up to make sure it is as strong as possible so readers HAVE to know what happens next.
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A hooky concept will always pique my interest initially. After that, and depending on the format, character comes majorly into play. But mostly, I need to be hooked on concept.
Thrillers
Serial Killers
Horror
Musicals
Rom Com
Psychological Thrillers
High Concept
Genre Films
Romance
High fantasy
Dark academia
Lifetime / Hallmark concepts
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.
After registering, you will receive instructions on how to submit your material in your order confirmation email. After submitting your material, please allow 3-4 weeks to receive proposed times for scheduling your call with the exec.
**Please note only features and one-hour pilots are eligible for First 30 Consultations. Half-Hour pilots are ineligible for First 30 Consultations.
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Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel your registration for a refund or Roadmap gift card if you have not yet submitted your material for review. However, once your material has been received by Roadmap, your registration cannot be canceled. Having revised material or a desire to retroactively apply a discount or gift card code are not grounds for cancellation, refunds, or gift card credit. Once your material has been submitted, the only acceptable grounds for cancellation and a refund or gift card credit is an unforeseen, ongoing emergency on the part of either the writer or the exec resulting in more than 6 weeks without any scheduling update from the exec via direct contact or Roadmap, or a sudden change in the exec's ongoing availability. In the instance of an irreconcilable scheduling issue, the writer may still receive a written feedback report from the exec. In this case, the writer is not entitled to a refund or gift card credit as the exec has read the submitted material and provided written feedback in lieu of the call.