Work one-on-one with an executive at mutually agreed upon times around your schedule. To start, you'll have a 15-minute strategy call with your executive to get the lay of the land for the month. Then, you’ll have email access to your executive throughout, plus four one-hour story notes sessions. Work on a single screenplay or multiple scripts plus get additional notes on your pitch, brand strategy, and career advice - work your mentorship to its fullest potential!
A great idea should be something that can be summed up in a sentence - think of a newspaper headline and the first line of the article. Characters are at the heart of every story and they have to be ones the audience want to invest in and learn more about regardless of the role they play in the piece. I spent five years as a drama commissioner and have a great instinct for something which 'has legs.'
My particular interest is in relationship dramas which have a returnable format or crime series which offer something new to the genre. As the mother of a teenage son, I am also interested in scripts which target that audience. Most importantly, I am interested in working with writers who are passionate about their idea. My passion has always been storylining and regardless of the genre, if there is a strong idea at the heart of a script, then it's something I can work with.
I'm never drawn to an idea which is sold of being the new version of something which already exists ie. 'this is the new Stranger Things meets Game of Thrones. Those shows already exist in their own right and a hybrid of the two will only ever come across as a watered down version and commissioners can spot it a mile off!
Jane Hudson is a drama television producer with 26 years experience in the industry. At 27, Jane became a producer of BBC's Casualty having previously worked as a script editor/storyliner on Hollyoaks and Coronation Street. Jane then went on to produce BBC's Robin Hood, Waterloo Road and Hustle before producing and writing Law & Order UK for ITV. After having a child, Jane moved into Drama Commissioning at ITV for almost five years before taking up an Executive Development Producer role with Eleven Film. Most recently, Jane was the Executive Producer of ITV's Emmerdale and saw them through Covid, becoming the first production to return to filming after lockdown and ensuring that one of the UK's most watched shows remained on screen. Jane is now writing and developing her own projects as well as collaborating with a number of writers on their scripts.
Private Month Mentorship
Each month mentorship kicks off with a preliminary 15-min. call to set expectations and lay out strategy for the month. Writer will have email access to the executive plus 4x one-hour consultations with the exec. Exec will read up to 4 scripts in one month (different drafts of the same script or 4 different scripts) and conduct 4x one-hour story notes calls. Calls can also include feedback on your pitch, branding, or career strategy.
If you pay with the deposit/payment plan, your second half will be due the 2nd week of the Mentorship. If you need a different type of payment plan, email dorian@roadmapwriters.com.
**Please note feature screenplays are limited to 120 pages maximum. Please contact terra@roadmapwriters.com for pricing on a Month Mentorship on screenplays exceeding 120 pages.
What To Expect
After registering, you will receive an automatic Order Confirmation email. Then Roadmap's Director of Consultations, Terra Joy, will get your mentor looped in with you! If you do not hear from Terra or the exec within 3 days of registering, feel free to email terra@roadmapwriters.com for an update.
Before starting your Month Mentorship, please ensure you are familiar with our Code of Conduct.
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, 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.