Chapter 1Critical Criteria Before Determining Your Subject Matter
Understanding the Global Marketplace
As I have spoken to aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers at colleges and film schools around the country, almost invariably when I talk about the realities of the global marketplace for film, it is a revelation for them. That’s because most educators teach creative theories of screenwriting or the physical practicalities of filmmaking, but are clueless as to the pragmatic reality of who or where the audience for these prospective films actually is and why certain scripts actually get made as movies, while countless others fall by the wayside.
As a victor of world wars, global superpower, and world leader, the United States of America has developed ...
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