Submit your half-hour pilot script and receive a 30-minute story notes call with the executive you choose. You’ll receive specific suggestions on how to elevate your script's dialogue, structure, pacing, characterization, tone, and marketability.
MARKETING BONUS! If you receive a rating of Excellent or Virtually Flawless in at least four out of five categories (Logline and Formatting/Ease of Reading excluded) on your consultation feedback report, we'll do one round of personalized marketing to 5 execs for this screenplay for free!
Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com!
Relationships first and foremost. They tie into character, but characters are meaning less if they have no connection to other people. So how the characters are connect to others and where the inherent dramatic tension can be mined in that.
Also ideally anything we make should be about something. Not what's happening but what it's about. So for example, BREAKING BAD. If I asked what that is about, most people would say that it's about a high school chemistry teacher that becomes a drug dealer. But that's what's happening not what it's about.
It's about a guy who finds out he's terminally ill and needs to find a way to provide for his family. That core universal need to provide for the people he cares about is why we go along on that journey. Every great show or film has that buried at the center.
Commercial forward grounded fair with elements of sci-fi, fantasy or magical realism.
In addition soapy and emotional propulsive story telling with a lot of twists.
Pieces that are designed not to have commercial value and be more think pieces or purely artistic films.
I believe our business has always laid in the space between art and commerce. That is especially true in this moment. So art for arts sake is hard at the moment.
Jade-Addon Hall is a television executive and independent producer most recently serving as VP of Drama Development at 20th Television where he developed primarily for Disney+, HULU, ONYX, FX, ABC and sold shows to other streaming platforms, including Netflix.
Prior to 20th at Lionsgate TV, he oversaw THE POWER UNIVERSE, RUN THE WORLD, STEP UP, WELCOME TO FLATCH and HEELS. Jade is also known for his previous work at BET, helping to launch BET+, and shepherding multiple shows including TWENTIES, with Lena Waithe and the critical hit AVERAGE JOE now on Paramount+. He has also developed multiple series at Disney Channel and Disney XD.
Most recently he developed and produced the vertical drama FALLEN ANGEL directed by Rel Howrey and starring NE-YO for Cash Kingdom Entertainment in partnership with vertical platform Flareflow.
Hailing from Hillside, NJ, he is a proud graduate of Syracuse University, holding a BA in Psychology and an MFA in Television Radio and Film. In 2021 he was named Man of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Los Angeles, raising a quarter of a million dollars for cancer survivors and research.
After registering, you will receive instructions on how to submit your material in your order confirmation email. After submitting your material, please allow about 3-4 weeks to receive proposed times for scheduling your call with the exec. If you haven't heard from your exec by the 3-4 week mark about scheduling, please email terra@roadmapwriters.com so we know to check in with them on your behalf about their proposed dates/ETA for you.
**Please note half-hour pilot consultation material is limited to 37 pages maximum.
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Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com!
MARKETING BONUS! If you receive a rating of Excellent or Virtually Flawless in at least four out of five categories (Logline and Formatting/Ease of Reading are excluded) on your consultation feedback report, we'll do one round of personalized marketing to execs (up to 5) for this screenplay for free!
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel your registration for a refund or Roadmap gift card if you have not yet submitted your material for review. However, once your material has been received by Roadmap, your registration cannot be canceled. Having revised material or a desire to retroactively apply a discount or gift card code are not grounds for cancellation, refunds, or gift card credit. Once your material has been submitted, the only acceptable grounds for cancellation and a refund or gift card credit is an unforeseen, ongoing emergency on the part of either the writer or the exec resulting in more than 6 weeks without any scheduling update from the exec via direct contact or Roadmap, or a sudden change in the exec's ongoing availability. In the instance of an irreconcilable scheduling issue, the writer may still receive a written feedback report from the exec. In this case, the writer is not entitled to a refund or gift card credit as the exec has read the submitted material and provided written feedback in lieu of the call.