By Chip Potter
During my first days working in Los Angeles, I was understandably a bit timid. I was in a new city and wanted to make a good first impression on by bosses at Ghost House Pictures and Cold Iron Pictures, so I kept my head down and focused on the work in front of me.
A great deal of my day was centered around reading scripts writing coverage – that is, giving my boss a summary of the screenplay and my brief thoughts of it. Then, one day, one of my supervisors came over to my desk and asked me what I thought of a script I had just sent him coverage for. I began to respond with roughly the same wording as my coverage: a bit indecisive and ineffectual, not wanting to upset any previously established opinions surrounding the script. He stopped me and said, “Sure, but what do you actually think of it?” (more…)
