How to Negotiate a SCREENWRITING DEAL - Screenwriting Tips
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- I explore two very different negotiating styles that you can use to seal your next script deal.
Along the way, I share the brutal truth about Hollywood horsetrading, provide a realworld example of how a negotiation works...and shine a light on the psychological tactics that some producers use to batter screenwriters down.
Full disclaimer - I’m not an attorney or an expert in entertainment law. Everything I know, I picked up over the years, learning at the side of my various representatives: the eight agents, three managers and one seriously-useful attorney…
Who is SCRIPTFELLA?
I'm a seasoned screenwriter, story consultant, film & TV lecturer. I've been optioned or commissioned by over 30 US and UK studios and production companies including: Universal Studios, Working Title, Bold Films, Scott Free, BBC and ITV. Recent produced credits include the award-winning motion picture Bram Fischer (2017) and the not-so-award winning Hard Target 2 (2016)...
If you're a screenwriter, producer, or brand, and you'd like me to help you tell YOUR story, please shoot me an email on scriptfella@gmail.com and let's have a no-obligation chat.
Alternatively, contact my manager Jon Kanak at Activist Artists. - Фільми й анімація
Great video. Wish I had seen it three years ago, before I got involved in the Thai indie horror movie world. Though with their budgets there is not much wiggle room.
My first produced script I got 3500 USD. A Thai horror movie. I had not a leg to stand on, no credits, got the gig through a friend who was the producer and I was approved by the director based on some spec scripts I had done. Second one was with same team. They liked my first one, but it hadn't been shot yet and they came to me for a second one, same genre. Same price. No wiggle room at all. And I only got paid if they got shot, which they both did in one year and I got paid. Nice, not much, but nice.
Then I was bumped up to 6G for the next one and then 10G for a fourth...and neither got shot. A studio was involved in distribution for these two and had a say in the scripts and they nixed both scripts at the reader stage. So no money for hard work.
Next time they came to me i said enough. I have proven myself. Give me something up front, I don't care just something. So I got 2G based on 5G final figure, got paid the 2 G after I turned in the script (not up front) but at least I didn't have to wait to see if it got shot to get paid. Which was lucky cause it still hasn't been shot. Oh, and I had to put up with some BS between the producer and director with both saying I thought the other guy paid you already. Welcome to world of indie horror film.
Wow, this is so interesting. Thank you very much for this, I'll be following your channel from now on!
Great to have you onboard, Cedric, thank you. best wishes Dominic
This channel is great, thank you for these videos! I binged every video you had uploaded when I first found it!
Hey Astyn - comments like yours mean so much to me - fuel to inspire me to keep making these videos. Look forward to hearing from you again, and sharing more screenwriting tips and tricks, soon.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am a writer, working with a producer in search of a screenwriter and this video is is a tremendous help for me.
Delighted to hear that, thank you Judy.
Thank you 🎉
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THANK YOU
Great video, thank you
This is not only solid advice for negotiating a price for a script but applies well to my current negotiation with my bank as I renegotiate my mortgage.
I'm very pleased to hear that, Moose.
Hey Scriptfella! Great video :)
Thanks Sant Arellano - appreciate your support
This is the best UA-cam channel.
Cheers Trey. D
Subscribed. Negotiating a 100 x 10 min new media series last year left me more than a little jaded, looking forward to watching more of your advice.
Awesome info... love the car radio idea!
Cheers Ben .Thanks for dropping in again.
Spot on Mate
Cheers, Anthar
Good one DM!!
Peter Lydon cheers !
Great insight, came at me a bit fast, would love a webstie so I can digest the information easier.
Thanks for this. Very well spoken! Shared with exec friend :)
Cheers JP
Thanks for this. Do you have a video determining your worth or G number? especially if you are new or are an experienced writer.
Great videos! What about one on packaging????
Thanks Steven - a Scriptfella special on packaging/agency conflicts of interest issues is a cracking idea.
Your wish Steven Austin...check out my latest vid on WRITERS vs AGENTS...
G, C, W including Car Radio or Chinese? It's just a brilliant video. I will be watching the other videos you posted too ! 👍👍
Anil Polton cheers mate .
So, Dominic... I'm assuming this video is for specifically being hired to write a script for a production company? I.e. They've been approached with an idea or the producer has an idea, but you're being hired to write the script? Or being hired by an author to transcribe they're book to script form?
Welcome back Splatterverse - the gig in question was a rewrite of an existing script owned by the prodco.
When you get paid for a script you and someone else has written am I right in assuming that it is split between you? Not even including the amount agents take etc.
It depends on your partnership agreement - but most writing teams split income 50:50.
Are those the real emails?
Yes
@@Scriptfella wow! Seems so... Hollywood. Haha