Hey folks, A company I'm associated with is looking for coming of age stories, mysteries, and true story dramas. Putting feelers out to the community -If you have something that's finished, under 100 pages, fits one of the above categories and you'd like to send a treatment (NDA no problem!)
Please do. There is a opportunity for the right script to be ingested and dissected by a new AI script service. If the script (including rewrites, far as I know) can get to a particular "score", it's easier to get folks attached. Apparently this AI can call BO within a small margin of error.
So if you have something you've written that you love, but it's just siting there on a shelf.... This could be an interesting vehicle to bring it to fruition. DM me for details.
Cheers,
Jeff Wager
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Yey! Good luck on the script hunt !
Hi Jeffrey,
Does this include animation?
Hello Jeff, I just sent you a message. Please feel free to contact me at Lisa@SimpsonLiteraryAgency.com I have scripts...I am a screenwriter agent
Jasmin, we're only looking for live action at this time.
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Yikes, AI screening for screenplays? Kinda zaps the art right out of it :( I was all for subbing until that came in. Knowing how algorithms and AI works, I think I'll look elsewhere.
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Finished a feature Biographical Drama based on a true story THE STOLEN DREAM. Did send an invitation for further talkings.
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It almost sounds like your looking for screenplays so you can beta test a new A.I. script service -- at least that's how it comes across to me.
Is this company paying money for scripts, and how much?
AI? OMG I have worked with some of the best tech in AI and Machine Learning. It is good for working through massive amounts of data (structured and unstructured).
It is useless for this type of application.
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Scriptbook.io platform has been up and running for nearly 3 years. At the start of COVID they were allowing a free upload of screenplays. The analysis and report they return is accurate and I can see the appeal for both producers and financier who want metrics.
All major distribution companies use traditional forecasting AND AI to understand a projects ROI.
I will give $100 to a child’s charity, like a children’s hospital if AI is anything more than a curiosity in the next 5 years.
I know I am a cynic and sceptical. But I work with this stuff. It is not as good as everyone thinks.
Could reach their site. I give it more attempts. But it looks like they may be gone already. It may just be slow internet locally.
I don't think Scriptbook ever recovered from what happened during their Black List partnership.
Dehumanisation; The Black List U-Turn Has Unveiled Something Terrifying
Thanks for posting that CJ - not sure of detail, apart from the negative reaction on the BlackList partnership. Scriptbook certainly isn't (or wasn't?) the only one of these platforms in existence, but it's the only one I had used for script analysis when there was an opportunity to trial it for free.
Wonder if this AI software (probably created by white ppl) will also decide on casting, directing, staffing.
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Eoin, yeah, there was a rep on Script Revolution running scripts through it too. Perhaps a last ditch attempt to draw attention to their product or maybe there's a relaunch on the way.
ScriptHop has some neat AI features which are used more so to pull content out and automatically start populating script packets.
Scriptbook/Deepstory was created by Nadira Azermai.
It's strange that they chose to partner with The Black List (maybe it was the only business option they had). The value (if any) for their service was to producers, financiers & distributors. The metrics they gave were nice to haves for a screenwriter, but nobody is leading a conversation with a dashboard of metrics on their script.
I mean, that's the crux of it really, Eoin. Scriptbook perhaps would have been a brilliant tool running behind the scenes within the Black List and could even have brought some extra value to the evaluations as well as the site's indexing. Instead, they chose to put the cost onto screenwriters for data that has questionable use to them, especially in isolation.
There's certainly a place for AI within the system and I'm been fortunate to see some developments that are very promising.
To those chiming in about AI taking the art out of it, I too have felt that, but it's not too much different than script coverage by a pro who's read 100's if not thousands of scripts; they get a sense of what works and why. With this, the script will be held up and compared to 160,000 films, and can provide analytics. That's not humanly possible in a reasonable timeframe. It's certainly not asking to have an AI make a film; but it does help tackle the age old problem for artists; namely -money. If this gives the money folks more confidence to invest, why leave the tool in the shed?
In the words of John Cassavetes - Business and art make strange bedfellows, but here we are.
Imagine paid fellowships use AI to weed out the thousands of submissions to a managable pile for humans to read and pick finalists
I have a series that based in true stories that happened in Greece. The episodes are not connected to each other. But I prefer to have my word on the cast. Due the Greek police department. They puted their faith in me for that
Hi Jeffrey. Is the company interested in a limited series treatment or just features?
I have a couple of really strong character driven and emotional coming-of-age scripts (both shorts & FL). I'm old school so there's no way I'd shove 'em through some AI sieve. What's the point?
Btw. Only after discussing yeah dude congrats we’re gonna send you any script. No one will send you a script. The only thing that we can share with you through mail is a pitch deck. Just that. And I agree with Doug.
The only thing that they have to suggest you, Is start asking for pitch decks. That’s the only way that you will find a script that will suits you