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SCRIPT SHOOT SCROLL: THE BEGINNER'S BLUEPRINT: A real world guide to starting your creative career today
SCRIPT SHOOT The Beginner’s Blueprint is for the new wave of creatives stepping into an industry that rarely stops long enough to explain itself.
It’s for the filmmakers, editors, writers, shooters, social creators, strategists, and curious beginners trying to make something human in a world built on speed, noise, and impossible expectations. If you’ve wondered how to get your first job without knowing anyone, questioned whether you’re too late to start, panicked about working for free, or quietly Googled the “embarrassing beginner questions” everyone else seems too confident to ask, this book is for you.
The Beginner’s Blueprint answers the 100 questions writer-director Nick Pollack has received over twenty years - the questions no screenwriting book, directing manual, or glossy filmmaking guide ever bothers to cover. The ones that shape whether you break in, burn out, or keep going.
This book strips away the myths and hands you the truth learned the long, messy way. Part practical guide, part creative reality-check, part quiet reassurance, The Beginner’s Blueprint was built for Gen Z creators entering the industry at full velocity, and for anyone older who wants to stay sharp, stay relevant, and stay human while everything keeps changing.
It’s for the filmmakers, editors, writers, shooters, social creators, strategists, and curious beginners trying to make something human in a world built on speed, noise, and impossible expectations. If you’ve wondered how to get your first job without knowing anyone, questioned whether you’re too late to start, panicked about working for free, or quietly Googled the “embarrassing beginner questions” everyone else seems too confident to ask, this book is for you.
The Beginner’s Blueprint answers the 100 questions writer-director Nick Pollack has received over twenty years - the questions no screenwriting book, directing manual, or glossy filmmaking guide ever bothers to cover. The ones that shape whether you break in, burn out, or keep going.
This book strips away the myths and hands you the truth learned the long, messy way. Part practical guide, part creative reality-check, part quiet reassurance, The Beginner’s Blueprint was built for Gen Z creators entering the industry at full velocity, and for anyone older who wants to stay sharp, stay relevant, and stay human while everything keeps changing.
542 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 6, 2026
About the author
Nick Pollack
106 books5 followersNick comes to writing through a visual lens, spending most of his career directing short films & commercials in Australia.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
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