If you are going to take the plunge and launch yourself into the scriptwriting world The Writers & Artists Yearbook offers this advice on producing a calling card script, this is a short extract regarding that:
"WHAT IS A CALLING CARD SCRIPT?
Written well, it is a script that simply speaks your voice. It is interesting, engaging, intriguing, and in some way unusual. It shows what you can do. It is an opportunity to be truly original. It shows the choices you make when you are not writing to a strict brief or commission. It demonstrates your skill and hints at your potential. It opens doors and starts a dialogue. It's the start of a writer's journey, not the final goal or end point of it. It is a means to any number of ends - yet must not feel like it's been written just to impress or to second guess.
A calling card script is not necessarily the first script you write. You must apply the same rigour to every script until you complete one that you feel speaks your voice. And if you really want to write professionally, then the calling card must not be the only script that you ever write. You must always be writing anew-again, and again, and again. No matter how successful you ultimately might be each new original script you write is a kind of calling card of who you are as a writer at any given point in your career.
A STATEMENT OF YOUR INTENT
AN EXPRESSION OF YOUR VOICE"
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