Screenwriting in a Project-Based Industry: KNOW YOUR VALUE
What is a Project Based Industry Screenwriters work in a project-based industry. What is a project-based industry? It's an industry where you get paid to work on a project, and the project is over once the work is done. This is why unions (WGA-E & WGA-W) were created to help screenwriters en masse. As screenwriters, we work from one movie, series, or commercial to another. We have unions, managers, and agents who lend their services to help smooth the transition from project to project. Why work in a project-based industry? This business of screenwriting is one of the most overlooked careers in the film industry. Anyone can write a screenplay, but to be a professional screenwriter requires a certain amount of enhanced research skills, knowledge-based understanding of the screenplay language, and crazy effort to be shrewdly relentless when doing a rewrite. Screenwriters work in this industry for various different reasons. Here ...