ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

11 years, 3 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

The answer is nothing at all until you sell them, as Morlom says. Can you price an original painting in pounds per square foot? It doesn't make sense to do so, because the quality, subject matter, skill involved, name of the artist all affect the 'value'. If you have a 150pp script and you sell it for £300 or £3,000 or £30,000 then great, that is what it's worth, no more or less.

If commissioning, I wouldn't be paying per page - that leads to loose writing. Carbon comes in coal or diamond form - the valuable form is smaller and more compressed over a longer time! Andrew suggests it's probably worth less than a 110pp script, and he's right. Cinemas don't charge by the hour for movies, so they can only get 2 houses instead of 3 from a longer screenplay, which reduces revenue.

Remember the word 'showbusiness' is one-third 'show' and two-thirds 'business', and that's about right.

11 years, 3 months ago - Andrew Morgan

Part time I presume??? £300 per year isn't going to pay the bills :D

Work out a reasonable rate for the time you work on it - i.e. if your time is worth £10 an hour and you work on it for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week for a year = £5,200. If you halve that then you're below minimum wage (£5.61 per hour?) so don't price yourself too low unless you're doing someone a BIG favour...

11 years, 3 months ago - Dan Selakovich

"In the process of..." If you're not done, how is it you know the finished length? And am I understanding you correctly that someone has hired you, and wants to pay per page? Hmmm... I guess it will be good practice for you if nothing else.

If you're working on spec, 150 pages will not be read by anyone that can pay for them. So the worth is zero. Only established writers can get away with longer than 120 pages on a spec script.

11 years, 3 months ago - John David Clay

Thanks all the contributions, both are true story based concepts the producer know what they want and was impress by my profile. people were asking about length @ the micro budget event by euroscript the other night 110 - 120 max although according to film london its up to 95 on MB level very informative evening actually.

Many Thanks again I'll see how it goes.

John

11 years, 3 months ago - Andrew Morgan

Less than a 110-120 page script :D

If you're freelance screenwriting I'd probably bill per hour - how long does it take you to knock out 150 pages?

11 years, 3 months ago - John David Clay

Thanks for the contributions all particularly Paddy I'll remember 1/3rd / 2/3rd sum and andrew Thanks also not sure less than 365 days? Thanks for the insight!

Regards

John

11 years, 3 months ago - Adam Ethan Crow

Im guessing as you are writing an unsolicited 150 page screenplay that you are new to screenwriting. I say this as getting anything read by anyone at a studio when the page count is over 120 would be a real chore in itself. If it is a vanity project then you should charge a flat fee for the initial script then a % of that for each polish.

11 years, 3 months ago - Marlom Tander

You're writing spec scripts? They're worth NOTHING until someone (a commissioner or the market) decides otherwise.