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Becoming4512310638175Writer00WriterA Self-Employed How to become a self-employed writerleft33146900Becoming a self-employed writer you will need to follow the commissioning process. The process is investigate the submissions which commissioners are looking for so you know exactly what you should be doing. Write the script that you think is going to be good enough, submit it to the commissioning editor. Could do this by filtering through an editorial administrator or editorial assistant. Receive a response back from the commissioning, meet and discuss the ideas and potential for cross channel/platform content. Either using multiple of platforms or just one, other channels, iPlayer’s. Discuss developing money, agents can facilitate these discussions. Editors and researchers will develop script with the writer, make a script as successful as you can possible. Decide on a production timetable with commissioning editors, this could include programme finance managers. Begin your pre-production, including producer, executive producer and director. The writer can give you advice if necessary. Shoot your production and the writer can give advice throughout. Discuss the press and marketing potential, the agents could be involved and then that’s the commissioning process done with.The guidelines for successMaking sure that your idea is right for the channel, research the channel before submitting your idea. You can also ensure that your programme could sit in with the current schedule. You have to look at if the people/audience will want to watch the programme from there prospective. Is there any interactive or cross form of your idea of potential. You have got to research your idea thoroughly and define the format you want it to be. Giving a list of actors/actresses or presenters that will appear in the programme will give the channel you have sent your submission to have an idea on who you are using and if they will be good enough to be shown on that channel. Making sure your proposal is clear to make them understand your idea more and be able to sell it in the first line. Make your idea original to make them know you can make ideas what are good enough and always unique.The skills neededCreativity is one good thing you need to be able to make a programme on TV. Knowing you have time management to meet the deadlines of when the company wants your idea in for. You need good written English to show them that you are able to do a script properly and able to understand it. Having perseverance will make you seen keen for what you want.Professional networking skills. By having producer’s numbers and going to meet people who are involved in a programme. That could give you a better chance of getting your script picked up.Having good verbal skills will make you seen confident on your idea and confident on getting it.Flexibility.Agency RepresentationSending your work to an agent will make you known and if they like it they’ll represent you. Agents will have contacts to communicate with in the industry, you can get worked produced within this industry. But going to an agent, they will take a cut of your earnings.How you get paidScript/pilot show development fee.You get a producer fee to oversee the pilot/first series.You can get short contracts, being either week to week or for a few months.Staff writers are employed to write all the time for channel. This is rare.Writers and freelance and submitted ideas. You get paid for the idea if the show gets picked up by the channel. They will pay you for the idea and then they will go through the developing of it.If the show is re-broadcasted, being repeated you may get royalty pay. This is where people keep watching the show over and over.If you become a self-employed writerThere’s always positives and negatives in everything you do;The positives in being a self-employed writer are:Self-employed. You can work your own hours and work from home. You don’t have a schedule of when to do your work and you don’t have a set time.You could get high earnings with doing something like this.Have a creative freedom.Have many avenues to submit your work through.Have the opportunity to make good industry connections with people in that industry.This job could be combined with another job which you’re getting paid for as well.Have the opportunity for fame.The negatives in being a self-employed writer are:Have unreliable income, you can’t expect to have a job at the end of it. No guaranteed work.Have and high output for potentially low income.Have to always write what the TV station are looking for. It has to be something you enjoy so this could be what you don’t actually enjoy.Solitary workCan always be stressful to meeting the deadlines and thinking of a great idea.Have to wait a long time for feedback or response from that channel you have submitted to.Will probably need to work multiple of jobs.Who can you go to?One place you could go to submit your script is corporations like BBC, ITV, or Channel 4. Corporations can be very specific about when they will like scripts being submitted to them. The BBC only like people to send a comedy from 9th March till 2nd April, drama script room only open in the autumn time. The days are to be arranged. ITV will like you to submit your script to a production company and get then to submit it to them for you and they will get back to you within 6 weeks after the production company has submitted your script to them. Channel 4 take proposals so you could take proposals before you submit a script, you can’t submit to more than this commissioning, avoid sending multiple ideas and they will try and do their best to reply back to you within 21 days. In the holiday season expect delays on a response. The best one out of these is Channel 4 because you might get a response after 21 days other than 6 weeks. Also they don’t have a time limit you have to hand it in. That makes them the best out of the three of them. If you aren’t very patient it will be good to go to the ones who have a shorter time to get back to you about your idea and script.Independent production companies are people you could send a script to, to send your script you have done to a corporation such as; ITV. One independent production company could be Endemol, Endemol is a place where you could send your idea to and then they can send it off for you to a better place then you thought. ITV will be one of these companies who would like you to go to a small company beforehand. Pangaea is another site you could go to before you send your idea to a bigger company who wanted you to go to a smaller production before.Independent directors and producers are people who have their own production companies. Independent directors make some hugely successful critically acclaimed blockbusters for an example Quentin Tarantina, Quentin Tarantina is a director who has made films such as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Sin City, and Reservoir Dogs, all these films have been very successful. Tarantina has his own creative freedom and is famous for being an auteur, his films are instantly recognisable for being one of his as they own similar conventions to his others. These all having some sort of neo-noir settings and violent scenes.Independent Directors and Producers are people who try and get into their own production by getting into independent directors and producers. This is very hard to get into but they are good to be in as then you can do produce whatever you want. Being one of these people, you will be able to be the only one who comes up with the idea then you obviously produce that yourself. Doing this you don’t have to go to a company before hand to give your idea because they may not like it. Being able to be an independent director and producer will be a good thing because you don’t need to go by there guidelines you just do what you want, use who you want in the idea you have. Finding the right producer, you could research different producer’s first, look at what their last few productions were. Like if they had a low budget on the films they had made. They probably won’t want to make a low budget film. You can also make sure the producers you are interested in and have experience in the areas you need help with such as; financing, script development, casting etc… Don’t get to many producers to “help” because this will weigh things down in the project and it will be hard work to sort out the mess of the anisations such as British Film Institute fund films that are more likely to be educational, most of the time films that they have funded have been historical, showing us things have happened years ago. They usually show films that relate to the UK history e.g. Gay rights, racism, political rights etc… Also they do films that won’t get as far as Hollywood but still allows people to see them because this means they have big stars in and they don’t want that. BFI was funded in 1933 they encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom. They are an institution that funds and aids independent films with money from the national lottery, the award this lottery funding to film production, distribution, education, audience development and market intelligence and research. The BFI future film festival provides opportunities to connect with the film industry and kick-start your career, also developing new and existing skills with inspiring screenings, master classes, question and answers and workshops. BFI are the heart of film production, and the largest public film fund in the UK, the government also give funding for films, a film shot in a particular location can have benefit of advertising that location to an international audience. The BFI provide two different types of funding, development and production. Within both of these categories they’re different kind of funding that producers/writers can receive. Development funding is development funding applications for animated films and documentaries from filmmakers who have yet to make their first feature. BFI accept live action, fictional film development applications from filmmakers who have already had a feature film produced and theatrically distributed.Production funding is a production applications from new and established filmmakers. Priority will be given to projects and filmmaking teams that demonstrate a bold vision and creative excellence, and that are unlikely to be fully financed by the marketplace. BFI support fiction and documentary, first-time and experienced filmmakers, but if you want to fund from a documentary you have to look at the section on “funding for documentary”. Funding for distributing and screening films: They support UK distributors to help ensure that the best British and specialised films connect with a wide range of audiences across a range of platforms throughout the UK. The drawbacks of organisations are that they sometimes will only support you if they know your film will make money. It will be very competitive to try and get into an organisation as many people will be trying to get into that as well as you, petitions can be different companies putting their competitions in the websites to make it easier for you to enter the script and to get it into the commissioning process and if it’s successful it can be put into production. and are companies what can put restrictions on the computer for example the locations and age. By submitting a script onto the website, if you win depending on the competition you get a cash prize or your script gets made into a production and it can get shown in film festivals or on a YouTube channel. Another example of a sight you can put your script on is APM, they’re a short screen competition company. You can enter a script up to 30 pages of any genre, if you win the competition you get a cash prize of ?500 and press release and it goes through production development. If you’re a runner up, your script is considered to be a production for future development. The benefits of competitions is that there will be publicity from the film festivals if it is a successful idea also you will get money from it. The drawbacks of competitions are enclosed, this means that the company chooses what genre to write about, this is a benefit and a drawback, it’s a benefit because contestants can specialise on specific genres. It’s a drawback because people who are not good at the genre what is chosen.center23876000Creative TipsBarrier TipsPlagiarism is used a lot in people using someone else’s work as their own. Don’t get copying someone else’s ideas because you will be caught out and they won’t take on your idea. This could be very academically unacceptable and it’s legally troublesome because it’s not your own work.Watershed is where adult programmes with adult content included is within a time limit 21:00 – 5:30 this is because young children won’t be able to see some content they want to see as it’s not for their eyes. This goes towards anything rated 15 or over but when they show a 15 rated film they have to have a gentle introduction to any sort of adult theme as then it doesn’t go straight into something it takes it time. Rated 18 aren’t shown till an hour after 21:00 so 22:00 because 18’s have more scenes what young people don’t want to see. Some channels use a verbal advisory before a programme to warn views of unsuitable content for children. You will have to look at your idea and then explain to the channel you’re giving your idea to, what time is suitable for your idea as it may not suit the post watershed. You will have to look at the watershed list of what could be included in them. They are graphic violence, horror, strong language, nudity, sex, gambling, and drug use. These are the things you will have to look at for in your idea and reference them to the channel you are putting out to. Libel is writing content about real people that is untrue. This has a negative element because it’s ethical as you are using someone for money. The person has been illegal because the person who has written about sue for ‘defamation of character’. If someone gets someone wrong by lying they will get sued and they will get money from it. So I am trying to tell you if you do this it could be bad and you could get sued for it if anyone knows it’s a lie.You only own the things you produce so when you tell someone that you have got an idea and say what it is that person could go and take your idea and type it up themselves, but because you have wrote it up yourself you can say they have copyrighted you. If you had an idea and you didn’t write it down then that isn’t your own idea. Once you have written it down its called intellectual copyright. You can also pay to formally copyright it, this can prove the date that you had written your script up. If you had been told you have copyrighted of somebody else you can go and debate with another writer with the copyright certification like emails, letter etc… to prove when you write your idea down to make them know you haven’t done what they have said about you.Censorship is where you could have as script for TV and they may have restrictions on the content. It all depends on the country that it will be broadcasted in. Things can be considered offensive, the political positions of the TV stations. You have to bear in mind what people may think is appropriate and who would think it is not appropriate.Your articleAudience: University leavers, on a media course.Purpose: To give information about becoming a self-employed writer.You should include:Basic information on the commissioning processThe types of company that they could submit their scripts to (which are easiest, quickest, most likely to accept, etc? Should they submit different scripts to different commissioning bodies?)How to get into writing scripts (creative tips)How you work as a self-employed person (where money comes from, royalty payments, getting an agent)Legal aspects they should be aware of – plagiarism, copyright, bias, watersheds, libel – tips for avoiding these things. ................
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