ABSTRACT
In business, knowledge is power. In screenwriting, knowledge and business awareness and understanding means a much more likely sale. If one has done proper due diligence in the marketplace, identified the desired trend to be developed, and determined the specific components in key territories that need to be incorporated, as well as what the budgetary constraints of that trend are, finding an existing script that contains all of those specific elements is slim to none. One can conceive his/her story idea based on his/her due diligence in the marketplace, the trend that he/she has identified, his/her creative analysis of how to hit all the notes that he/she has identified in major territories that will be essential sales for the financing of the film, and how to translate those elements into a story and screenplay that is commercially viable in both the foreign and domestic markets.
