What A Ghostwriter Can Do For Your Screenplay

By Evan Bailyn

So you’ve got a great idea for a screenplay? Who doesn’t? It’s a running joke among actors, gaffers, directors, even caterers that everyone from their dry cleaner to strangers on the street are pushing a screenplay into their hands or trying to pitch them a story. How do you compete with the crowd, especially when you’re unsure about your writing skills but absolutely positive that your idea could break records in box office sales?

A Penn Group Ghost Writer

When you hire a ghostwriter here at the Penn Group, you are hiring the best in the business. Our ghostwriters have decades of experience, higher education degrees, and a lifetime spent studying and mastering the art of writing. You may have your pick. Check out resumes and portfolios. Though our ghostwriters are bound by confidentiality agreements and unable to share the details of their previous projects, each has a variety of samples for you to look over.

Why Do You Need a Ghost Writer?

Obviously, you know what makes a good story. You’ve seen your share of movies and can speak intelligently on the different directorial and cinematographic choices made by famous and not so famous directors throughout the course of their careers. You know what makes a good film and what subject matter would fare better as a short story or a play. You’ve spent years going through different ideas for movies and you’ve weeded through them and have come up with one or a handful that, if you could just get the ear of the right person, you could definitely sell them on it.

That’s where your ghostwriter comes in. She may not be the ear you’ve been looking for, but she is the telephone line you can use to dial direct. Without a tight script that adheres to the needs of the industry, you won’t get past the interns assigned to sift through the truckload of scripts that come through the mail slot each day. With a ghostwriter, you can be sure that your idea will be done well. Due justice will be given to the idea that you’ve spent years thinking over, scribbling notes on, and imagining in your head.

What Can a Ghost Writer Bring To Your Work?

With a Penn Group ghostwriter, you will get someone who understands the art of screenplay writing. Here are just a few of the questions she will most likely ask you as you two begin the process of coming up with a strong screenplay. Consider preparing your answers in advance to help speed up the process.

• What style or type of screenplay do you envision? A chronological story line? Fast paced scene changes and clipped dialogue? Internal monologues and long, pan shots?
• How long do you want your screenplay to be? Keep in mind that one page of a screenplay generally equals about one minute of screen time.
• What are your characters like? Drawing up profiles of your protagonist’s characteristics, his past and issues, hopes, favorite food. Do the same for sideline characters as well as the antagonist (if you have one).
• Are there any shots or montages, transitions or extensions that you definitely want in the script? Describe them.

Give your ghostwriter the tools she needs to create the screenplay you’ve been mentally playing on a loop and prepare your cover letter. In 30-90 days, you will have a polished manuscript that is ready to make box office history.

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