The Cover Letter
March 31st, 2013 by CarlI have started sending out my most recently completed script to producers and agents. Well, not exactly my script, but a short pitch for my script telling them to contact me if they have any interest in my script. It can be a somewhat daunting task. Honestly, I spent a solid four days on the log line alone. A log line is one sentence that sums up the point of the movie and has a wow factor that will pull somebody in. It can be frustrating laboring on one sentence for four days, especially when you just got done with an entire 110+ page script.
The process made sense to me. Better a letter than a full on script that just gets thrown in to the pile that they receive. I’m sure they have a much smaller and better organized pile for letters such as this. After I wrote my…