![]() ![]() But for the most part, no one is out to get you. Learning not to take it all personally or drown in the notes, ideas and suggestions that come your way takes practice and a tough skin. If they love it, it’ll be because of the great performances, but you can bet your bottom dollar that if there’s anything they don’t like about it, they’ll blame the writer. The studio exec that is looking for a vehicle for his 40-something male star so if you could just rewrite your lead character twenty years older and change their gender, please.Įven when you get through development, into production and eventually share your story with the world, everyone will have an opinion on the finished work. The producer who thinks they can raise the finance for it, but just not the amount it’s going to cost to make and who wants you to cut half the locations and characters. The agent that knows a producer that’s looking for something a bit like this if you could just change it from a drama to a horror movie. ![]() The development assistant or script reader looking to filter out all the bad stuff but also worried about missing ‘the next big thing’. From family and friends who read the earliest draft, through to the location manager who thinks you can easily switch your park for a diner and it won’t matter (it will), they’ll all have something to say about your script.Īnd most people reading your script will have a particular angle on it. So how do you hold tight to your vision of the script without becoming so intransigent that no-one will hire you? Director Lexi Alexanderīeing a professional screenwriter is not for the faint-hearted because everyone, and I mean everyone, will have an opinion on your work. The script development process might feel like a solo effort while you’re happily ensconced in your attic, lovingly crafting your spec script with little more than a ‘meow’ from your cat for days.īut it takes an army of people to turn your script into a work on screen that audiences will engage with, which means that making screenwriting your career is all about being able to collaborate with others throughout a professional script development process. ![]()
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