from the girl who makes pitch decks for a living - make your own. ESPECIALLY for a short.
Keep it sweet & simple. Focus on full bleed images that have a heavy side focus then add a gradient layer on the other side, put your text there then add a few collage pages.
I hope Dev Patel gets everything he ever wants in life. Wow. I cannot believe Monkey Man was almost a straight to streamer… it’s a MUST-EXPERIENCE in theaters.
Making
@theblcklst
(with no manager or agent) was a V large 2022 pipe dream for me.
This story went thru SOO many iterations but it was an idea I LOVED & finally felt confident about & once I shared w/ industry friends 🪄 their feedback rolled in:
"THIS IS IT, RUN WITH IT."
I’ve had a lot of ppl ask me “what’s next” after getting on
@theblcklst
I sent script to any *industry* ppl who asked
few studio ppl
prod companies
agents/managers
Then asked execs who voted 4 me - to reach out to their network👇 feedback so far 🥹
this was my priority bc 🧵
@theashleyray
consistently only received this "advice" from people who didn't understand how to manage their own time // were obsessed with hyper-fixating on useless projects vs. managing an actual team.
Wooot woot 🥹🥹 this is probably my favorite script I’ve written to date.
it’s dark, scary with a bit of revisionist’s history and some v effed up female leads 😈😈
does anyone have any favorite pitching classes for film/tv?
Like I'm actually terrified to pitch bc i cannot tell a story in sequential order YET lol but i can write them really well and I can make really pretty pitch decks to show u what i mean and how you'll feel
also as I read through the responses, I say with all the LOVE - PLZ people - SIMPLIFY your decks. It's meant to be visually appealing not jarring
& please do NOT pay this amount to ppl who have not worked w/ prod co's, management companies, showrunners selling to the big guyz
Then people I hadn't even sent to, DMed me for my "UNHITCHING" script. I was terrified but like stoked... obvi
Then just a few weeks ago, 2 of the people who read it reached out to let me know they had NOT ONLY voted for me
@theblcklst
but they shared it with their friends🥲
FINALLY sent my hell script to my managers!!
an idea i absolutely loved and people seemed to adore that took me almost 8 months to actually crack and write a decent version of it. I think there are about 15-20 past iterations of this thing.
I feel like people take this as a joke but margot robbie said something similar about her time in soap operas - its an amazing learning opp because theres so much to do, so many lines to memorize, & things are always changing with very little time window
And so I did, I think there are over 40 drafts of
#BetterLuckNextTime
& each one a little more silly, a little more absurd than the last.
& running with it also meant I needed to tell people.🫠 I could rewrite it for forever but I needed to hype it, the way my friends hyped me.
I am not a HYPE person, well not for myself, I am for others so this was new.
So, I practiced with people at parties, laying down the concept of an "UN-HITCHED" script & it clicked for people instantly and they asked to read it!
It was much less painful than anticipated
And omg the guy in the yellow jacket needs therapy - he’s giving incel and just a total lack of awareness about WHY women might not want to date him … it’s not that you’re skinny … you’re just insufferable 🫠🤯
The
@VICE
#BeAMan
panel is fascinating - obviously
@griffinmaxwellb
crushed and his reactions are Oscar worthy but I did not anticipate falling in love with a red headed marine
I love a lot of my scripts but low-key HIGH KEY I cannot wait for the day that my suburban MLM script is on the big screen
&& all these girl from high school ask themselves, IS THIS ABOUT ME??! bc IT IS bc they NEED to be humbled & brought back down to earth.
I think it helps me be realistic too about the pitfalls & honestly this sounds so lame but how important vibes are 😂
& I’m very anti-gatekeeping (see my TikTok lol) so I’ll try to keep a running log of all updates as I try to make this script a movie🤓
the amount of "artists" who don't respect the business side of the industry are ASTOUNDING.
Not giving meeting avails in a timely manner means you're forcing assistants to DOUBLE the work OR failing to give feedback in a timely manner. People remember!!
the one thing i swear by that has drastically improved my well being (that i used to HATE) is getting up early, like EARLY 5:45
I workout 6-7:15
then shower 7:30-8
then coffee x read or go for a walk outside w a pod
then start work at 8:45
i am obvi WFH spoiled
NOTHING screams we love the people just like jesus did like spending $20M on superbowl ads instead of just... idk giving the money to those people in need.
Not one of my friends whose jobs range from teacher to nurse to business execs to OT want to sit down after a long, very hard day of work and then use their brain to make their OWN movie??
Ashton Kutcher says AI is going to raise the bar in Hollywood because "there is going to be more content than there are eyeballs."
"Why are you going to watch my movie when you could just watch your own movie?"
I trust their opinion about who they’ve liked working with in the past+
there’s some v specific ppl who’s careers I watch & I want to emulate & I know those execs have connects to their reps.
So for a lot I’m just waiting 😅 for them to read & hope they like & set a meeting
I do not understand why they took Eric’s character from cool, hot, a little clueless to straight up the dumbest person on tv on Boy Meets World bc the younger Eric?? His hair? iconic. His acting? Phenom. His comedic timing?? UNMATCHED!
I’ve had 3 meetings (before the 2 week industry shut down) that I enjoyed a ton!
& also LEARNED a lot from! As far as questions to ask, how to really explain myself, my goals, etc
I work in the industry so I think I do get a bit of the “game” but there’s always more to learn
I stopped in a bar yesterday for lunch and it was SUCH a joy to see SOOO many men excited to be watching women's basketball 🥰
One of those moments where you get off the internet and realize there's still good in the world. TRULY it gave me that feelin!!
Alexa, play "Vigilante Shit" by
@taylorswift13
😈
Beyond overjoyed🥲 biggest shout out to
@LipayFiasco
for creating this this insanely dark, goofy, & eccentric buddy comedy with me & to every single person who read the 10 million drafts & laughed. Thank you thank you thank you
Miss
@JoannaWeiss
is giving karen x the girl who never got the guy she wanted & is still salty vibes 😭😭 bc you would not put Meghan into this group of world wrecking trash balls (while leaving her husband out)
unless 👀 you were jealous … & racist 👀
And for the ones I don’t have a direct 1-1 type of referral - I may still just reach out (a bit cold🥶) bc I know the type of career I want to have & im watching them make it happen for their writers
& I want to start off 2023 with a lot of meetings to find my ideal teammate
When are the studios finally gonna grow brains and create some type of calendar integration so I can add release dates into my CALENDAR!!! so I don't forget! we see too many ads, we are too inundated, give me an invite and ill accept if interested. A QR code whatever
Idk?? Maybe if networks made it EASY AND ACCESSIBLE to get to - more people would happily tune in???
This is like asking why people are paying so much in rent to live somewhere instead of asking why landlords are price gouging 😑😑😑
having a lit manager for a boyfriend sounds like it would be great except that he's a WILDLY hard read AND we have very different tastes.
I'm just a girlie trying to make some fun mystery thrillers and he's got oscar winner taste 😭😭😭
im honestly shocked that parents aren't just rioting in the streets & refusing to work until gun control laws are point into place at this point... like they/we could literally stop america's world from running but we're like.... not
Idk someone smarter than me organize it plz
Theres nothing more fun than being in the stage of writing when youre like WOWWW this is the best thing ive ever done. Im a genius. This is gold. It will be a tv show.
So fleeting, i am certain i will wake up tomorrow absolutely hating everything i wrote tonight!!
i need studios/theaters to realize their most powerful marketing tool will never be a press tour, social asset or a big ass billboard but instead a friend to friend recommendation
These are called referral programs + incentives and they work wonders for every other industry.
I cannot stress how amazing
#BEEFNetflix
is… I’m genuinely at a loss for words for all the things I’m feeling.
how uncomfy it is but how good it is and how sad I am and how much I’m laughing and how fucked up they are but it all makes sense
Am I fighting with a woman in a small town moms group bc she gets drunk, posts rude shit, fights with everyone then deletes her comments the next morning? YES!!
Do I live in that town? No.
Do I have children? No.
Interview: Kristen Tepper (
@kristentepper
), whose screenplay "Better Luck Next Time" made the 2022 Black List. "I think it was literally 300 applications before I finally got into doing one of those internships."
#screenwriting
#writing
Sometimes I feel really silly and dumb and get a lot of imposter syndrome about my tiktoks and sharing my experiences but then i see stuff like this and it is very 🥲
I need this blue check mark gone - I literally only got blue so I could edit ONE TWEET then it didn’t even let me edit it and I cancelled this thing 😂😭
Whoever chose the end credits songs for every episode of Beef on Netflix needs an Emmy right now
Hoobastank
Incubus
System of a Down
The offspring
Bush
Björk
Smashing pumpkins
Like what???
What’s the
#1
movie that if you’re scrolling the channels (for those of us who still do that) that you’re gonna stop and watch it ? Mine is
#thetown
- I can’t resist anytime I see it
Do any companies in film/tv have internship programs for people who are not currently enrolled in college?!
Also why is that still a requirement on the paid ones?? Just feels silly to leave so many people out. Some ppl dont figure out what they want to do until later in life.
I’m so excited for people to see this bc Jeff Nichols understands the female gaze like VERYYY few men do.
Each man in this film is bringing their own unique attractiveness to the table and its a VIBE.
Jodie foster tho?? scene stealer, iconic, QUEEEEN.
This is Austin Butler’s Tom Cruise in Top Gun and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman moment. This is a “oh yeah, he’s a movie star” scene, through and through.
The darkest part of the
#HarryandMeghan
doc (beyond the racism) is that these brothers who were still very much CHILDREN had to put on a “proper face” & go comfort strangers wailing over THEIR mothers death. the lack of self awareness & absorption from adults is mind boggling.
btw if you want VERY high quality images from movies and shows to use for tweets/layouts I recommend fancaps dot net, they split every scene into hundreds of frames like these
im sorry there is nothing funnier to me than a dude who think being a republican is anti-establishment??
SIR ur lickin those boots CLEANNNNN. The corporations and uber-rich thank u for ur service
After a state-of-the-art American jetliner mysteriously vanishes over the Pacific, a crew of experts set off, funded by a grieving billionaire, to recover the flight but they soon realize not everyone can be trusted.
#LastKnownPosition
12/20 🌊
Just a reminder
@SouthwestAir
is an unchecked capitalist machine just like all the other airlines
&& the airline industry received $50 BILLION in Covid bailout $$ that was supposed to be used for employees & instead the ceos shoved it into their own pockets + investors hands
“Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason.
Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”
Finallyyy feeling really good about my latest script. v special && endless thanks to
@roebotwriter
for doing the fastest notes turnaround ever so I could send to an interested manager🤠
putting it out in the universe that this is the year I get a manager 😤🤓
@carolinerenard_
Legit wasnt sure if id enjoy it. I came home to chicago this weekend. My sisters *with kids* told me they LOVED IT and im gonna go see it now. No amount of ad spend could have done what a friend/fam rec can do sometimes
i came to this the bar with the notion that id enjoy a nice beer after work and get a lot of writing done but idk what percentage this beer is but I am NOT SOBER and i must go home.
no writing was done. Not a lick.
Making a lil
#WriterWrapped
for 2021 to remind myself this year wasn’t a complete dumpster fire🥴
- 5 pilots
- 2 features
- 2 7’s on
@theblcklst
- a few semi-finalist & finalist🏅
Could not have done any of it w/out
@roebotwriter
@SteP83552636
the lil writers group who could🥺
I’m very certain the girl next to me on the plane was signing divorce papers and then the guy next to her said congrats on your freedom then they got to talking and I think they’re in love.
I need spotify to get a clue from pandora's algorithm... when I click RADIO i want to be introduced to new music that's just in the same vibes as the artist i just clicked.
I don't need a reorganization of my already "liked songs"
This x a Morning coffee is the only thing getting me out of bed this morning
@juliayorks
x
@BlkAssFeminist
are both must follows if you want to be in the film/tv industry
On Episode 2 of THE BABY WRITERS POD, I'm joined by Kyra Jones (
@BlkAssFeminist
) to chat about
@Coverfly
, going viral on
#ScreenwritingTwitter
, and being a "fun bitch" in meetings.
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Retweeting this with my favs (as someone who makes pitch decks for a living 🤓)
Shot deck - it is 10000% worth it - 🔥 search function
Filmgrab
Pinterest
Tumblr
Google (add size LARGE required)
To make the actual deck
indesign
keynote
canva is amaze
readymag is new and cool
@JaimePrimak
Mostly just trial and error! canva is SUCH a great and easy to use tool combined with film grab // shot deck!
Made my own projects then I worked with a prod x management company who needed a lot and had sent me their faves and kind of fine tuned there!
pretty sure I am the only blacklist script not on any of the google drives & TBH - I was very aware & conflicted
If I shared it - that would mean, more interest garnered bc more readers, right?
but on the flip - maybe i'd rather know who has it by sending it out 1 by 1
“Nostalgia is a paradox of irrecoverability, a desire for not only the place of one’s past, but for its memories in real time, for their return to populate the present.”
There is just no show like
#boymeetsworld
- me and my roommate are nonstop giggling rn and I cannot stress how much I wanted to be apart of this family when I was younger
I just think yeah, i'll miss out on opps bc less people are reading it
but** i also think the people who read my logline AND reached out bc it excited them are people that really want to work together - which is my
#1
goal, getting this made