Show Business

• Title Brand ($1,200): This is your production’s promotional identity. For examples of this work CLICK HERE. 

• Adaptive Show Treatment ($1,500): Strong single page treatment. Adaptive means do in a way in which its malleable for the development team you inevitably move forward with. 

• Log Line Assist & Collaboration ($900): Together we’ll arrive at an attention getting and powerful 2-sentence log line. For examples of this work CLICK HERE. 

• Show Positioning Statement ($800): This is a whimsical six to eight-word power tagline that accompanies a title brand and key art. E.g.  Arkansas ‘Their History Is Killer’, Day Job ‘How Far Will You Go For A Little Credit’, The Tree ‘When All Hope Is Lost… ‘Have A Little Faith’, etc. For examples of this work CLICK HERE. 

• Short Synopsis ($800): A fucking ‘we gotta nail it’ five to ten sentence synopsis for pitch purposes. For examples of this work CLICK HERE. 

• Pitch Book ($1500-$2500): An uber-smart, graphic, and intensely written six-panel micro-presentation of the project which presents its concept, communicates the shows vibe, tone, and emotion, with one panel touching upon the executive’s fiscal pressure points. The sole goal of this thing is to gain you those extra seconds of ponder to get your project into the consider pile. For examples of this work CLICK HERE. 

• Website ($600): A simple but well stylized 2-page site inclusive of a branded teaser page and contact page. This being said, there are additional unavoidable tech fees: Yearly Hosting ($300), domain purchase ($8-$14 per year), and if you want to have a vanity email tied to your domain name e.g., jsanchez@scaramangaranch.com this service ranges $10 - $14 per month. Vanity email service is elective, not required because we can use your existing email, Gmail, or otherwise in the sites contact page. For examples of this work CLICK HERE. 

The total bundled per-service value under my ‘indie’ rate structure is $8,300. My unbundled hour-to-hour indie rate is $85-$175. My rate structures are disclosed under the ‘Scope’ heading within each Service gallery page.   

• All Option A Elements ($8,300)

• Long Synopsis ($1,200): An even more elaborative and powerfully worded 1-2 paragraph description. 

• Solid Show Treatment ($2,500): This is it, no abiguity about it this is the treatment we'll pitch.

• Look, Feel, Vibe Development ($800): We'll flush out the show so the reviewer feels the cinematograpy and essence of our version of it. 

• Alternate Funding Strategies ($800): An outline and map of ways the pilot could be funded.

• Budget Reduction Analysis ($4,500): With a production budget in hand, I'll use my methodologies to reduce it to make it more attractive to the pitch recipient. 

• Pitch Development ($5,500): A strategic plan as to how we'll deploy the pitch. 

• Full Concept Development ($60k); withstanding pilot script unless we have a writer I'm comfortable with. If so, I'll co-develop the pilot. 

Final Origional Pilot ($45,000): If you approve Dev, my go-to screenwriter, you'll have strong team developing all written elements including the pilot script. 

Dev will share in my percentage although hers is ownership only, where as mine includes decision making authority along with you. 

• Added To Slate: Your project will be added to and pitched along with my slate. 

The total bundled per-service value under my ‘indie’ rate structure is $69,400... right in line with what I do this for sans creative services which are typically optioned a la carte . My unbundled hour-to-hour indie rate is $85-$175, Dev's 'indie' hourly is $85. 

This depends on the option. 

Option A: Honorarium+ hard costs associated to hosting your website (at the point it is needed).

Option B: Honorarium. There's a lot of work to be accomplished before spending is necessary. 

Option B: Screenwriter's related travel expenses to attend the initial Santa Fe or Albuquerque collaborative meeting as; 

Arrive Friday evening, work 8a-? Saturday & Sunday, depart Monday morning. 

This may or may not require airline tickets+ parking fees (market value), or fuel and milage compensation (.75 per mile @ 350 miles = $262), and either hotel or airbnb accommodations. 

I'll assume meal and beverage costs for my writing partner. If by air travel, in leu of you expending for a rental vehicle, I'll pick up and escort her so long as she overnights in Santa Fe.

As far as hotel cost, given my relationship with La Fonda I'll likely secure a rate between $100 and $130 for deluxe king, upgraded premium room or suite. In addition to our free use of their beautiful conference room. 

Other than a final in-person collaboration just prior to finalization, I don't really forsee anything beyond unanticipated remedial needs.

Associated site hosting fee and or ancillary as needed things like postage/shipping. Forward of that there's nothing unless we are so fortunate to be invited to pitch. Once development concludes it's just a lot of research and 'pushing the flesh' as they say. And as of now most pitch sessions take place via video. If we get beyond that the next step will probably be an in-person meeting in LA. Should that happen and the meeting is the immediate next day, I'd rather drive than deal with the air travel situation.  

Absolutely none. No matter how much you spend or who you involve there are never guarantees or promises with regard to pick up, option, or funding. You're not bringing anyone onboard for a guarantee. Their sole duty is to leverage their talent and experience to draw interest to the project and ideally structure it for consideration and sale.

There is no deadline. However, I cannot guarantee by the time you decide to move forward, a) my schedule will be permissive to taking it on, or b) that I will still have interest given the concepts I receive weekly and time alloted to my own projects. As well, I'm an active PGA producer and time permitting I do occasionaly take on contracted role on every so often. 

None of whats mention is to pressure a decision. On the contrary, I know this is not nonchalant for you. However, sweat equity participation is enormously time consuming. When presenting offers like this I'm playing a very long game to, if ever, recovering compensation for my time and talent. It's for this reason I never  jeopardize existing commitments for new ones regardless of the project or those affilliated with it.

Although this is more thoroughly and definitively outlined in the Agreement, the jest of it is below: 

We are both entering into a mutually impactful long term legal relationship on an incomplete concept in which beyond my technical skills and time contribution, I am obligated to committing without limitation my best in effort, ideas, and strategy otherwise known as ‘intellectual property’ of which I receive nothing should the project fail.

My lofty goal is 6-months so it can be added to my first round pitch slate. This being said, it could very well take up to a year to complete everything but it won't take longer. 

J. Sanchez, a member of the Producers Guild of America, recently concluded eleven seasons as creator/showrunner of the Fireball Run series on Amazon. His newest properties are Arkansas and Unbelievable television series. Producer, Developer, Collaborator, Director, and Executive, J. has launched several successful ventures all within the creative industries and won countless awards for his creativity. Between entertainment projects, J. develops attractions and serves as economic advisor to destinations seeking to grow their tourism. He has been featured on every network and in hundres of articles. Of his accomplishments, Sanchez considers his reputation and personal network among his greatest assets. He is humbled to have worked with and count as friends and mentors some of the most influential industry, business and political leaders abroad. A USAF Veteran, J. also served as Chairman of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce (elected) and City of Orlando Ambassador (appointed). He resides with his spouse and an aviary full of feisty chickens on their majestic 25-acre Scaramanga Film & Production Ranch in Santa Fe, NM. 

Award-winning screenwriter, children’s television writer, and children’s book author Dev Ross has been writing and performing for adults and children for over thirty years. She has received the following awards - The Action in Children’s Television Award, the Dramalogue Award for Best New Musical Children’s Play, an Emmy for her writing work at Disney, and the prestigious Humanitas Award for excellence in screenwriting. Dev has written family films and television for Disney, ABC, FOX, Universal, TLC, The Discovery Channel, AG Interactive, Scholastic, HIT Entertainment, and PBS. She’s written over a dozen published children’s books for the WE BOTH READ book series and worked extensively in story development for Fonda Films. Dev was Artistic Director, writer, actor for the Emmy Award Winning Twelfth Night Repertory Company, a tri-city educational touring theatre, Artistic Director and actor for the Educational Theater Company (ETC), an educational touring theatrical company targeting youth at risk. Dev also wrote and performed on the Emmy winning PBS children’s TV series TNRC Presents, toured extensively across the United States doing Theatre for Young Audiences. Locally Dev is the co-founder of Sedona Youth Theatre and half of the “The Two Lucy's" along with her creative partner Shondra Jepperson writing, producing and starring in original murder mysteries and their original musicals Hot Flashes On the Trail,  Striptease Falcon and Horse Tales & Cowboy Trails.