Hey, everyone. My name's Kim and I'm new here (well, I joined last month but am only now feeling my way around). I've been writing for a while now. I have one imdb credit and a few ghostwriting assignments under my belt, but things have gone quite stagnant as of late, so I joined this site hoping it...
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JD, usually the Producer is the person who sources funding. The writer can offer months of labor and creativity to build a story and turn it into a script. The Producer is the person who pulls all the...
Expand commentJD, usually the Producer is the person who sources funding. The writer can offer months of labor and creativity to build a story and turn it into a script. The Producer is the person who pulls all the pieces together, including a script and funding, into a project that can get completed. If the writer were supplying funding, she wouldn't need a Producer, she would be one.
By fund, may I should have said: hire/pay a Producer to do what you can't. Lets not get into the "Jack of all trades, master of none." discussion.
Trust me, if I had the money to produce it myself, I would be out looking for cast and crew instead of a producer. I look forward to one day having that luxury.
Kim, I've written about "difficult" subject matter, too. With me it's disabled anti-heroes and also gay characters. One of my disability scripts made it to the Top 50 of the Nicholl, and I even option...
Expand commentKim, I've written about "difficult" subject matter, too. With me it's disabled anti-heroes and also gay characters. One of my disability scripts made it to the Top 50 of the Nicholl, and I even optioned it to two indie producers, whose funding unfortunately fell through. Your achievement in the Nicholl competition is HUGE. They get more than 7,000 submissions! (Think about it.) But unfortunately, bless their hearts, I think they focus more on artistic achievement than on saleability. I would recommend to you a course I'm now taking, the ProSeries at ScreenWritingU.com. It's intense. It's six months of almost daily assignments, but it walks you through how to turn what you're passionate about into something producers are actually looking for. And in the end, even if you wind up still working on your original quirky indie project, you'll have a number of amazing techniques that will help actually get it up there on the screen. Because your story is worth telling. And to more than just "readers."
Advertise in "Jobs", Mandy dot com, Backstage, etc. for a Producer. Maybe it not "lack of balls", but commercial viability of the subject matter.