The Talking Screenplay
Times change and the process of script-reading is not exempt from evolution.
iscript.com is a new online resource offering a very interesting service for screenwriters of all abilities and experience. You simply submit your screenplay and iscript have it read by professional actors, recorded as an mp3 audio file and returned to you.
Of itself the process of hearing back your script as an aural experience is one that offers a distinctly different perspective: one with the potential to re-shape your project in dynamic and functional ways. Moreover it also presents as a very useful format for potential producers or collaborators to 'read' the script - stick it on your ipod or car stereo and read while drive, walk or run. Lastly you can always then offer your screenplay as a podcast or audio player from your website as a means of self promotion. The possibilities really are rather functional and diverse.
At about a $1 per page its also really very reasonable. The iscript.com website has some examples to listen to to get a sense of what a read screenplay sounds like. If nothing else a podcast of a screenplay, as a way to promote, share and seed a media project, is one that gets us away from the analogue world of paper and print and embraces what the digital age is good at - multiple platform, scalable, flexible delivery and exchange.
For shorts to TV series, machinima to indie features there's certainly a wide range of productions that stand to benefit greatly from a service such as iscript.com and a not to distant future where studio producers pro actively request the mp3 reading of script is really not that hard to imagine.
Posted at 12:00AM Nov 04, 2007
by Mike Jones in general |
