Ross Cascio
Story Analyst. Story Editor. Creative Consulting.
Consultant
(2007 – Present)
Story analysis, editing, and coverage writing for international and domestic feature film production. Creative consulting for broadcast media, social media, product marketing and branding. SEO blog writing and consulting. Content creation and editing for social media.
Story Analyst/Story Editor/Production Assistant Lakeshore Entertainment
(1998 – 2007)
Responsible for providing support to the Director of Development by way of reading, summarizing, analyzing, writing coverage, and editing materials submitted for consideration for motion picture and television production. Assisted the Director of Development with in-depth story development procedures including but not limited to detailed “beat sheet” breakdowns, character analysis, and market analysis. Extensive experience reading motion picture and television screenplays, television scripts, novels, comic books, graphic novels.
A little more about me.
I began my career in the entertainment industry in 1997 when one of my own original screenplays was optioned by a small production company in New York. The project was never produced and I moved to Los Angeles in 1998 where I started working as a Production Assistant for Lakeshore Entertainment. One of the responsibilities of being a Production Assistant was supporting the Development Department by reading newly submitted materials (scripts, novels, comic books, etc) and providing analysis by way of writing coverage.
I was able to distinguish myself as a reliable analyst and coverage writer, and I was promoted into Lakeshore Entertainment’s Story Department where I worked as an Executive Assistant to the Director of Development and the Director of Acquisitions. My responsibilities as a reader and coverage writer continued to expand and intensify in this position and I worked closely with both executives to bring projects into consideration for production by Lakeshore.
I was ultimately promoted so that my only responsibility was reading newly submitted materials and assisting the Director of Development with analysis and editing. I worked closely with the Director of Development to identify potential new projects for Lakeshore and to edit and refine elements of projects already in Lakeshore’s production pipeline.
In 2007, I started independently consulting, specializing in story analysis and story editing. I have two decades of reading and analysis experience. I have read, analyzed, covered, and edited well over 3000 projects, helping get some of those projects get produced.
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