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Make Money Screenwriting Vol 1: Creative Strategies
.Written by a leading literary, film and TV agent, this series of focussed books is an indispensable insider’s guide to the development process - from the original idea through to production.
The books are easy-to-read, demystifying all aspects of being a professional screenwriter. There is a website www.makemonetscreenwriting.com where readers will find articles and blogs keeping them up-to-date on changes in the film and television industries, and where they can ask questions which Julian will try to answer.
In the first volume CREATIVE STRATEGIES, you will learn how to get an audience deeply engaged in watching your screenplay unfold; you will see the key differences between writing for the cinema or for television; you will learn what effect the new streamers - the SVoDs - have had and how to understand what they are looking for.
Then you will learn how to write treatments and step-outlines and Bibles - the crucial document to sell a TV series idea. Finally you will learn about writing screenplays that are what to do and what not to do, and for screenwriters who have never thought about writing a novel, an introduction into the pros and cons of writing prose!
MAKE MONEY SCREENWRITING Vol 1:
Creative Strategies
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: How to Grab Your Audience
Chapter 3: The Physiology and Emotion of being the Audience
Chapter 4: Cinema or Television
Chapter 5: SVODs, the Streamers and The New World Order
Chapter 6: Writing Treatments and Step Outlines
Chapter 7: How TV Shows are Pitched
Chapter 8: Pros and Cons and more Pros
Chapter 9: Writing Prose, another string, another bow.
Volume 2, BUSINESS STRATEGIES, looks at how writers should run a home-based whether dealing with producers, directors, script-editors or agents, writers need to be able to manipulate the politics of those relationships. Having established themselves as professional, they need to up their game by pitching this is a crucial skill that affects almost every aspect of an professional writer’s career.
They also need to understand the different markets for their work; explore the many benefits of co-writing, and understand how producers and broadcasters see audiences. As the majority of film and TV productions are co-productions, a subject writers are usually excluded from discussing, there is a chapter on co-productions as they affect writers. Finally there is an chapter on how to get one, use one, fire one or do without one.
Volume 3 NEGOTIATING DEALS AND CONTRACTS looks at the essential skill of negotiating. Even if you have an agent, it is important to understand negotiating every script meeting involves negotiation. Being good at it can stop you from being fired from a project. Understanding negotiating skills can also make you writer better as your characters argue with each other (some characters having greater negotiating skills than others). Handling meetings is part of your negotiating ability.
Making money as a writer means deals and two writers offered the same deals can end up with widely varying amounts of money, depending on their understanding of writers’ contracts.
Finally, writers are bound by laws as is everyone else. So this Volume has sections on deals, contracts and law as it applies to writers.
The books are easy-to-read, demystifying all aspects of being a professional screenwriter. There is a website www.makemonetscreenwriting.com where readers will find articles and blogs keeping them up-to-date on changes in the film and television industries, and where they can ask questions which Julian will try to answer.
In the first volume CREATIVE STRATEGIES, you will learn how to get an audience deeply engaged in watching your screenplay unfold; you will see the key differences between writing for the cinema or for television; you will learn what effect the new streamers - the SVoDs - have had and how to understand what they are looking for.
Then you will learn how to write treatments and step-outlines and Bibles - the crucial document to sell a TV series idea. Finally you will learn about writing screenplays that are what to do and what not to do, and for screenwriters who have never thought about writing a novel, an introduction into the pros and cons of writing prose!
MAKE MONEY SCREENWRITING Vol 1:
Creative Strategies
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: How to Grab Your Audience
Chapter 3: The Physiology and Emotion of being the Audience
Chapter 4: Cinema or Television
Chapter 5: SVODs, the Streamers and The New World Order
Chapter 6: Writing Treatments and Step Outlines
Chapter 7: How TV Shows are Pitched
Chapter 8: Pros and Cons and more Pros
Chapter 9: Writing Prose, another string, another bow.
Volume 2, BUSINESS STRATEGIES, looks at how writers should run a home-based whether dealing with producers, directors, script-editors or agents, writers need to be able to manipulate the politics of those relationships. Having established themselves as professional, they need to up their game by pitching this is a crucial skill that affects almost every aspect of an professional writer’s career.
They also need to understand the different markets for their work; explore the many benefits of co-writing, and understand how producers and broadcasters see audiences. As the majority of film and TV productions are co-productions, a subject writers are usually excluded from discussing, there is a chapter on co-productions as they affect writers. Finally there is an chapter on how to get one, use one, fire one or do without one.
Volume 3 NEGOTIATING DEALS AND CONTRACTS looks at the essential skill of negotiating. Even if you have an agent, it is important to understand negotiating every script meeting involves negotiation. Being good at it can stop you from being fired from a project. Understanding negotiating skills can also make you writer better as your characters argue with each other (some characters having greater negotiating skills than others). Handling meetings is part of your negotiating ability.
Making money as a writer means deals and two writers offered the same deals can end up with widely varying amounts of money, depending on their understanding of writers’ contracts.
Finally, writers are bound by laws as is everyone else. So this Volume has sections on deals, contracts and law as it applies to writers.
190 pages, Paperback
Published May 27, 2021
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October 22, 2021
This was a superbly engaging and practical book, exploring many different facets of a screenwriting career. The only reason I didn't give it a 5 was because it got a bit repetitive towards the end.
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