Courtney at 2011-03-03 23:09:45:

Could you clear up the mystery that is those infamous words...

"No unsolicited material."

A PDF of a script blindly sent... a big no-no... I get that. I've never sent one out without permission and a release form.

But...

Is a logline sent via email... to spark interest... considered, "material?"

Anton at 2011-03-04 02:45:58:

I would be realy interested in hearing from you on methods of how to show the inner world of a protagonist, in pictures rather than using a voice over. For exampel, in the french film ”A Prophet”, the protagonist speaks to the ghost of the man he killed, wich I understand is a way of showing how the protagonist coops with the preasure of being locked up in prison and learning from that experience. Or, why not, in Black Swan, where the protagonist's inner conflicts are shown in hallucinative visions of seeing her self… I gues there are a million other ways, and I would love a discussion of that.

Best regards from Sweden and a strugling writer.

UK screenwriter at 2011-03-04 08:46:59:

Agents and managers. I have one have just finished with another.

Now that I am querying people again, I have this dilemma. When an agency has a lot of people, it can be difficult to query the right person, so I have contacted a few with a polite email.

Most don't reply, some do.

So how can you get around a comment I got from an agent this week. "I will read consider your work, but I am a little upset that you have contacted other agents here with the same request".

I wouldn't have done that if agents reply to queries and just say "no".

If I don't contact other agents, then I am writing off making a contact on the whim of an agent letting me know they aren't interested, are too full on clients etc.

So, finally to the question.
How do you contact multiple agents at the same agency without upsetting one or all of them?

Marc at 2011-03-04 22:58:13:

Supposing you've written a screenplay based on a song. How do you proceed with it if you want to enter contests or send it out to agents, etc.? Do you have to contact the band/artist first or respectively their management and get a green light from them or is this only relevant when the picture is finally getting made? Is this an adaptation equal to one of a book?