Can you guys help me out with something? · 10:30pm Jan 24th, 2013
I will finally explain part of my leave of abscence and why I might drop fanfiction in the future. In reality, I've been trying to get on the writing staff of FIM, and I know that if I wanted them to even consider the idea, I'd have to write a spec script. That's where you write a screenplay that would be a speculative episode. And i've written one of them, and there's another one that's in the planning stage.
Thing is, I'm not sure how I could get it read. Not going to use the word "accepted", because I want it evaulated if it's good enough for the TV show. I really mean, how do I get a member of the staff to read it?
I tried getting an agent a while ago, but that didn't work out at all. It's a case where you pretty much have to have screenplay experience to even have a shot, and/or live in Hollywood, which I don't.
I've heard one route you can take is giving it to the story editor, which would be in this case Meghan McCarthy. Is there a way I can contact her? Not by Twiiter, my tweet would probably be buried deep under the tide of tweets she receives, but maybe something like a mailing address or email? If you know it, send it through a PM to me.
Maybe the script I wrote is no good, which is all possible. But I want at least one shot at this.
I don't know my way around this but I could offer you my support and good luck.
I'm not that social.
Sorry.
There's always the direct approach. Schedule an appointment with their offices and make a presentation. You would have to put a lot of work behind it, and you'd have to really press any and all individuals that you were able to contact about an appointment. But if you could go in there with a full thirty minute script detailing an episode, along with a full storyboard, and show-accurate art detailing particular scenes then you would at the very least get your foot in the door. The hardest points would be getting the appointment scheduled, which you may not be able to get scheduled in until a few months from whenever you called, and preparing your presentation, since that is what will really sell the idea of the episode to them. If you can give them a presentation that knocks their socks off then there is no doubt that they will consider you for a position. If the content of the script is exceptional, then they'll almost undoubtedly put it in as an episode, and if you pull off both with flying colors then there should be no doubt that you would receive a job.
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That's impossible. The offices for the show are in Vancouver and I'm in the central United States.
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Not impossible, just difficult, you could still do it.