As a development Executive you read the script, you recommend the writer, you read the "recommend"s, you recommend the rewrite, you revise the rewriter. You do the notes, you deliver the notes, you make a note about how the notes weren't done. Producers and Studios need your advice but writers' drafts come in so fast that it's hard to tell the revisions between one draft and the next. You need more than coverage -- you need constructive feedback from an experienced industry peer.
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Blair Richwood knows what your day is like, she's been there. She established Richwood Script & Media to help you achieve your goal -- to make better movies. We know how to do that and we know who you are --
| Story Executive -- you develop at every level in a production company, with titles ranging from "over-worked Assistant" to "under-credited VP". |
Studio Executive -- with a major or a mini, on the lot or in the tower, you are in the race but they're always moving the finish line. |
Network Executive -- from Burbank to the Westside, you oversee dozens of pilots and hundreds of episodes a season for an insatiable master named "Nielsen". |
Your readers are great, your interns are eager, your staff
is talented. But you want a different level of confidential literary development --
if only to spark some new ideas to go back into the ring with. Blair Richwood is
your private development executive working for you on a per-project basis -- no strings
attached.
We're not talking about coverage. Get what you need from
Development-by-the-Hour to take your material to the next level. Please review our Services to learn what we provide for your material
-- whatever form it takes. And when the timing is critical -- to the project or to
your schedule -- we can offer a turnaround to you in as little as three days, with
overnight Rush Service available.
Story Editor, Head/Mgr./Dir., CE, D of D, Assistant or VP, or
even "D-Girl" -- your job runs the gamut from constantly creative to
buried in busywork. Regardless of your title, you read material,
"do notes", and generate or review lists, lists and more lists. On top of
all the tracking, trading, reading and wrangling you do, you've got internal development
to worry about. With your in-house duty to bring in new writers, supervise active
projects, find the next bestseller-to-be for adaptation, and get projects set up,
you can turn to Blair when you --
- need a fresh take on the revisions of a script you've read one too many times;
- know there's a movie in that book, but you just can't put your finger on it;
- are hitting a wall with your writer, or you need to prep notes for a new rewrite;
- love this spec but want to be sure of its strengths before you recommend it;
- have worked on a treatment for so long that you need a new perspective;
- need a breakdown of a script ASAP, but if you do it you'll have a breakdown;
- find yourself wishing you had a confidential partner who didn't want your job.
Blair Richwood is a phone call away.
How many bosses must you deal with? The next
level up, their boss, the president and the chairman, as well as the
star, the producers, the director and the revolving writers. Staying true to
your own taste while satisfying your studio is a big job. You've got a slate of 20 -
40 projects at a time, in all stages of evolution -- from the slipped-spec bid, to
pre-production revisions, to on-set A-pages.
You develop your own pet projects along with an assigned slate, often with no
support. Can you really give each script, novel, treatment, pitch and rewrite your
fullest concentration? Of course you can. You do it every day. But what
if you had some high-level professional feedback that could help you --
- keep the edge on your creative perspective;
- see something you might have missed on the millionth read of that script;
- deliver more specific notes to get the best out of your writers;
- define the adaptation you want to pull out of an article, play or manuscript;
- spend your time on career-making projects without slighting the smaller works;
- bounce ideas around to work them out before you take them upstairs;
- bring a little something extra to the table.
Blair Richwood does it for your colleagues, she can do it for you.
Whether you're in daytime, prime time or late night, you have
the nation to entertain, the talent deal to supervise, the brass to clue-in and the
advertisers to appease. Oh, and ratings. Drama or Comedy, Pilots or returning
series, star vehicles or new discoveries -- you cover it from concept through
air-date. A hundred little movies every season, and that's just the episodes.
Movies and minis, specials and docs, games shows, talk format, animation and
alternative -- it goes on and on and you're responsible for making sure it does.
Your entire team is as loaded down as you are, so who has room in their day to help
out? With speedy turnaround and variety of hourly services, you can get the support
you need to keep you as creative as you want to be. Richwood Script & Media
can be your private development staff when you --
- need to turn the last episode of the season into the last episode of the series;
- know there's something wrong with a premise but you can't quite define it;
- are charged with developing a series from that movie you would've passed on;
- have to cut a mini-series script down to an MOW -- or vice-versa;
- must develop a series from that book, and a clear outline would make it manageable;
- are handed a list of talent to develop series premises for;
- just can't look at another first draft sent over by that agent you're working with.
Blair Richwood is your out-source answer.
Please review Our Services and Rates for individual materials, consider Blair's Qualifications, and read our Confidentiality policy. And if you don't see what you're looking for, phone, fax or e-mail your question and we will try to accommodate your specific development needs.
We look forward to working with you -- confidentially.
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Los Angeles, CA 90067
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