Can your script earn a fandom as dedicated and large as STAR WARS? If you follow these tips, of course!
Your script will need to earn more money than it costs to produce and market as a film. It’s amazing how few writers make that factor integral to their decisionmaking! Commerciality is a vital part of your script, and here’s what we’ve got to say about it… all from past WriteMovies consultancy reports and articles!
- Intellectual historical dramas often tend to need awards and acclaim in order to draw strong audiences.
- Humor generates the potential to appeal to broad audiences.
- Audiences, typically, are attracted to worlds unlike our own; future worlds, past and medieval lands, different planets. The new and different grasps our interest.
- Working music into your script and creating a soundtrack can become a strong selling point.
- The ages of characters can affect the commerciality of your script – obviously, younger characters will attract younger audiences, for example.
- Stories aimed at family audiences can be commercially successful due to the naturally larger number of people attracted.
- A shocking (yet plausible) question raised in your script can create a commercial hype that would help The tone of period dramas mixed with the use of real historic figures can make for a strong commercial proposition.
- A script set abroad would drive up the budget of the film considerably – the script must have compelling commercial prospects otherwise to justify production. This isn’t to say don’t set your script overseas, but bear in mind the cost if it is.
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