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One way to market your action adventure screenplay is to turn your script into a graphic novel. Alejandro Seri, Educational Marketing & Relations Director for Final Draft, Inc. shows you how in this instructional video:
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Of course, at some point, you’re going to have to either, draw it yourself, or hire someone to do so, at which point, you should have enough funds to make the movie….
Marketing is never cheap, Mike, but the other reality is, at the end of the process you also have a graphic novel you can sell. Adapting our work into a variety of forms only adds more possibilities for a sale of some kind.
Add in the fact that you are helping to market your movie.
Studios want products with a built in fan base. Look at last year’s top grossers and you’ll see that only two of the top 20 were original ideas – Rio and Rango (both animated.) Everything else was a sequel, a comic book, a theme park ride, a toy, a novel…
Mike,
There are many websites where you can find talented artists from around the world who are willing to work within tight budgets. I have worked with artists from Australia, Argentina and Mexico, as well as from the US. Believe me, you can create a graphic novel sample or a comic book for under $1000. If you are a real resourceful producer and plan correctly, you can even do a full GN for about $5K (pre-print costs). All this is much cheaper than shooting a live-action trailer for an Action-Adventure, Sci-Fi or Fantasy project. In the end, you have marketing material that can help pay for itself while shopping the feature.