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#Trackingb tv pilot contest software#
At the time I was using CELT-X screenwriting software on my iPad and it had a template for a Bible, with sub- categories for Characters, Timelines, etc. I did this over and over again, with probably twenty episodes in all over three months.Īfter that, I wrote a pilot for a show called HOPEWELL that was kind of a practice pilot about a small midwestern town where strange supernatural things began to occur. I made note of how many acts there were in each one, how many scenes were in an act, and the approximate length of each scene. I took a number of episodes of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, BREAKING BAD and DOCTOR WHO and watched them with a remote in one hand and a notebook in the other. So I spent a few months really looking at the structure and rhythm of my favorite shows.
#Trackingb tv pilot contest how to#
As much as I LOVED television I didn’t know how to write it. I’d been writing plays for almost twenty years and writing feature films for nearly that long. I’ll start with…īy the time I sat down to really write my first pilot, I realized that I knew very little about writing television. I won’t make any assumptions about your experience/expertise, apologies if this seems like basic common sense or stuff you already know. I’m offering it to you in the hope that some part of it may be useful. This is just one guy’s overall experience from writing the pilot to selling it. I know it’s not going to happen for everyone the same way and there will be plenty here that other people will disagree with. But it DID happen and to quote David Mamet from THE EDGE, “What one man (or woman) can do, another man (or woman) can do.” So I’m passing along what I learned from my personal experience. It was my first job in Hollywood.Ī lot of people are going to tell you that it NEVER happens that way. I was made an Executive Producer as well and spent two years learning how to make television at the highest level.
#Trackingb tv pilot contest series#
One of the Executive Producers was Steven Spielberg, it starred Oscar Winner Halle Berry, and got a straight to series order for thirteen episodes from CBS. **TRACKINGB.The day I turned forty years old I sold my first big script, a tv pilot for a new show called EXTANT.

(contact: Dave Miller - (at)gmail(dot)com)ĪND THE OVERALL WINNER, CHOSEN BY OUR PANEL OF INDUSTRY JUDGES, IS.ĬONGRATS AGAIN TO ALL, AND THANK YOU TO ALL OUR ENTRANTS AND INDUSTRY JUDGES. Embassy Seoul, claiming to be a North Korean defector from the fabled 'Office 39'. OFFICE 39 by Dave Miller - A mysterious man seeks asylum one morning at U.S. (JUST SIGNED BY JEFF PORTNOY BELLEVUE PRODUCTIONS!) Enter tassels, tit glitter, and the oddball community she never knew she needed. by Cara Danielle Brown - Struggling with a recent Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis and the adjustment to her new normal, a young woman enrolls in beginner burlesque classes as a means of rehabbing her body. (contact: Eric Stroud & Rory Kulz - ericscottstroud(at)gmail(dot)com & rory.kulz(at)gmail(dot)com) HALF IN / HALF OUT by Eric Stroud & Rory Kulz - A repressed, biracial Mormon leaves his wife, religion, and home in white-bread Utah to build a new life in Los Angeles, surrounded by other outsiders. (contact: Angela Olinghouse - aolinghouse(at)mac(dot)com)

SUPER SINGLES by Angela Olinghouse - Four female superheroes fight hard to keep bad guys out of their city but can't seem to keep them out of their beds. (contact: Jeff Perreca - jperreca(at)gmail(dot)com)
#Trackingb tv pilot contest serial#
GRAPHIC by Jeff Perreca - A meek, social media content moderator forced to watch the worst of humanity on a daily basis finds his mental state deteriorating, until he starts hunting down a user posting graphic content - soon, he finds himself in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer. We are excited to announce the finalists and winner of this year's trackingb TV script contest!
