For a remote producer, the development stage of filmmaking eschews face-to-face meetings for online video meetings and phone calls with potential screenwriters and directors. This chapter emphasises the importance of a producer&s;s familiarity with workflow, equipment, and software. Etiquette is stressed, from taking a call to crafting a succinct, formal email. Project development is broken down into its constituent parts: script selection, whether a concept is fully realised, resources available to make the project, marketing potential, revenue projections, and potential barriers to production. Once criteria have been examined, the chapter goes into detail about the development process through to building a business plan.