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48 | Connecting Craft To Money And Career (As Screeenwriters)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Lean Forward for a Horror Movie

"If you had to sell this why are people going to tune in right like what's going to make them lean forward?" "I know somebody who recently is the pro writer going after a huge huge huge movie had a pitch take on it and they thought the movie they were interpreting it as small so he and the producers cut together a trailer," she says. 'There can be read this in the pitch stage to help them understand the movie you're trying to get to is really good'  Producers have literally well if they were physicalized a pile on their desk that you can't even believe, writes Judd Apatow.

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