So You Want to Turn Your Book into a Film

So You Want to Turn Your Book into a Film

by Gini Graham Scott
So You Want to Turn Your Book into a Film

So You Want to Turn Your Book into a Film

by Gini Graham Scott

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Overview

So You Want to Turn Your Book into a Film? provides the key steps from developing your book into a film. Part I discusses assessing whether your book should be turned into a film or film series.  Then, Part II deals with how to develop a film from your book and pitch it to film producers and agents.  The chapters cover these topics:

            - Assessing your book's film or series potential

            - Some examples of doing a book to film assessment

            - Using your book assessment as a guide

            - Creating a logline and synopsis

            - Creating a treatment

            - Creating a Show Bible

            - Creating a sizzle reel

            - Writing a script or script sample

            - Pitching your film to producers and agents

            - Raising funds through sponsors and investors to produce your own film

GINI GRAHAM SCOTT, PhD is a screenplay writer, indie film producer, and TV game/reality show developer, plus a nonfiction writer who has published over 200 books, 50 for traditional publishers and 150 for her own company Changemakers Publishing. She also writes, reviews, and ghostwrites scripts and books for clients. She has written scripts for 20 feature films and has written and executive produced 10 films and TV projects.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940164667146
Publisher: Gini Scott
Publication date: 11/06/2020
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Gini Graham Scott is a screenplay writer, executive producer, and TV game show developer, plus a nonfiction writer who has published over 200 books, 50 for traditional publishers and 150 for her own company Changemakers Publishing. She also writes, reviews, and ghostwrites scripts and books for clients.

She has written scripts for 20 feature films and has written and executive produced 11 film and TV projects. These include Me, My Dog, and I and Rescue Me, distributed by Random Media,  Driver, distributed by Gravitas Ventures, Deadly Infidelity, distributed by Green Apple,  Death’s Door, a TV series based on a co-written book. At Death’s Door, published by Rowman & Littlefield, The New Age of Aging, distributed by Factory Films, and Reversal distributed by Shami Media Group. Several other films have just been completed or are in production: Courage to Continue and Bad Relationships

She has recently developed a TV series The Neanderthals Return, based on a series of books about the Neanderthals coming back into modern society.

She has written and produced over 60 short films, including dramas, book and film trailers, TV show pilots, documentaries, and promotional videos.  Her IMDB resume is at http://imdb.me/ginigrahamscott.

She is the author of four books on filming, including So You Want to Turn Your Book Into a Film?, The Basic Guide to Pitching, Producing, and Distributing Your Film, and The Basic Guide to Doing Your Own Film Distribution, Finding Funds for Your Film or TV Project.  and The Complete Guide to Distributing an Indie Film.

She has been hired to write over two dozen scripts for clients, adapted from their novels, memoirs, or script ideas. She reviews books for their film potential and writes treatments and scripts for three major companies that publish books and promote them for authors.

Her scripts include action/adventure scripts, suspense thrillers, psychological character films, and contemporary dramas.  Some recent scripts are the sci-fi suspense thrillers Brain Swap, Dead No More, Deadly Deposit, and Reverse Murder.  Other scripts include the crime action thrillers Rich and Dead and Deadly Affair; and the suspense thriller Bankrupt.

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