Introduce Yourself : Screenwriter by Jordhi Deidrick

Thanks for being part of my network.

Welcome, Jordhi. Be a sponge, soak up all you can. And above all else enjoy the journey. Here if I can be of any support.

Sometimes making a short whilst you're actually wanting to make a biopic can be really helpful to promote your bigger concept.

They league of actors that you see for trying the lead roles, (I imagine that they are lead roles) is usually done by their own management, not necessarily casting agent. Once you are in that kind of position as an established actor it is literally their choice if they are interested in being in that genre or style of film. In other words they don't necessarily have to audition for roles at times. That's more big budget movies.

I enjoyed the brief that you shared in the article. sometimes the people we think who will best do the work are the 'characters' that we watch the actors portray in other movies. And sometimes we believe that that is how the person is so I just wanted to clarify that.

I have been in other work and having it involved with overseas directors and casting agents and so on when I'm just doing my thing on a regular day and someone comes up and says are you did that or can you just do this thing that you did ? & it's like yeah but that's not me!

Then again its who you see honestly to be playing the characters that you're writing than, that is for you to have in your dream in the big scheme that you've created.

Some times before rather than getting the entire script to a reader, is use the concept and see if you can make a short out of it because you can leave people with a cliffhanger wanting to see what happens next and that's where a short has the benefit of not having a rounded edge end.

so you're teasing your audience and teasing the producers who can invest into this project with a 5 or 7 minute taste of what you want to produce

It's a little like actors now doing so many self tape auditions instead of actually going to physical or auditions, which auditions, which are now kept more for callbacks but not so much for initial auditions to some extent.

And it's usually a 1 1/2 to 2 minutes max self tape that the casting agent is prepared to even watch. I've even had a request for a 25 second self tape audition! I've had a request for a respond in my own words to a particular question in under 1 minute self tape audition! And I actually got the job with that one...

Or you can Google the hierarchy for want of a better word, of whom to get your scripts to in terms of a literary agent or screenwriter guild something of that nature. I'm an actor I'm not a screenwriter so I can't advise you there but screenwriters guild can possibly be a starting point, and use your networking especially here and even with LinkedIn