WARNING TO SCREENWRITERS: Beware of THE HAPPY WRITERS, (Stage 32) Joey
Tuccio. They claim to offer online and verbal pitches to development
executives, agents and managers. I recently bought a written pitch
service for $45. After a few days I was sent back a standard rejection;
PASS that made no sense at all.
It said that the my pitch took TOO
LONG to get to the logline. My logline was at the very top of the
pitch! It also said that I needed to focus on the cast of characters???
You ALWAYS focus on the protagonist and his/her disadvantage as well
as transformation and obstacles, which I did.
Lastly, the PASS email
said that I didn't include anything on why this story stands out??? I
wrote and entire paragraph about why this story is very unique and how
it will grab an audience.
IDEA THEFT is rampant in Hollywood and if I
had time I can tell you several recent sad stories about how your ideas
get stolen online by unscrupulous services like Virtual Pitch Fest and
The Happy Writers. You may want to think twice about services like
these unless you want to give your ideas away to uncreative staff
writers who are under pressure to come up with something new!!!
Mark Claro
