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Screenwriting for Profit
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Screenwriting for Profit

by Andrew Stevens
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
6h 59m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 13Writing for Cost-Effective Budgets

From a production standpoint, while your movie is being developed on paper, it is essential to have the prior awareness of realistic market value of the project before developing a screenplay. Otherwise, the entire exercise is a waste of time. How to write for cost effectiveness? How to communicate budgetary limitations to the writer? How to communicate elements that are critical to sales, which must be incorporated into the proposed script? These are factors that novice producers do not usually take into account when collaborating with writers on a script, and these factors can add up and either drastically increase production costs, thus making the film unable to be financed, or fail to include the ...

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