SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 517 – Look Books and Visual Outlining with Todd Bogin

Todd Bogin talks about co-writing ‘Hidden Exposure,’ how he worked with a sales agent and went to American Film Market (AFM) to sell the film, and he discusses making look books and how a writer can use visual outlines to develop their characters.

In this episode, Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Todd Bogin.

Our guest, Todd Bogin is the Writer/Director of the Drama/Thriller feature Hidden Exposure (2023). Among the cast of that movie is Liana Liberato and Richard Kind.

Todd Bogin talks about co-writing Hidden Exposure, how he worked with a sales agent and went to American Film Market (AFM) to sell Hidden Exposure. Topics also include making look books and how a writer can use visual outlines to develop their characters.

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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.