submitting on paper or electronically?

Stijn Hommes said:

The actor gets his scripts from directors and studios. It doesn't change anything for you.

Most agencies and studios accept email nowadays, though, so sending your queries and scripts online might still be okay. You should never send DVDs and emails with attachments are only okay after sending a query first or at the very least checking if they're okay with attachments.

Always check guidelines to see what your intended recipient finds acceptable.

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nmstevens said:

I haven't submitted a script in any way *other* than electronically in years. I mean, I used to have a fed ex account and it was common for me to overnight stuff and just recently we used it for something and were shocked at how much it had gone up -- that's because it had been so long since we'd last used it to ship anything.

It's not that people don't use paper -- it just doesn't make sense to move that paper through the mail or to Fed ex it around if there's any other way to do it.

So I e-mail a script to somebody and, very often, they're just going to read it on a computer anyway. If they need to print it out, they'll print it out on their end. If they need to make copies, they'll make copies on their end.

The point is, though -- people don't really want to spend the time and money to make a copy of something for the "slush pile" for a reader to read.

And, not to be too cruel about it, under normal circumstances -- that would be your script.

From their perspective, it's a very low priority, long shot sort of item and even having a reader read it at all is sort of a shot in the dark. To have to have someone download and print it out of of who knows what kind of program (and in the process risk downloading a virus) --

-- not the sort of thing most companies really want to have to deal with.

NMS

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