Eight Agent Questions Every TV Writer Wants Answered… Right Now
by Filmmaker Staff in Filmmaking, Screenwriting on Nov 26, 2013
The following piece on TV writers’ interactions with their agents is excerpted from Chad Gervich’s just-released How to Manage Your Agent: A Writer’s Guide to Hollywood Representation. It can be purchased on Amazon at the link above.
How much should I talk to my agent during staffing season? I know
they’re superbusy, and super-stressed, so I don’t want to bug them, but
I also want to know what’s going on. Should I call once a day? Once an
hour? Once a week? What?!
“It’s not about how frequently you call,” says Verve agent Amy
Retzinger, “although please do not call every single day, and do not
call once in the morning and then again in the afternoon . . . and don’t
never call, because there are certainly clients you don’t hear from for
weeks and that’s dangerous, too.MORE...
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Written by Alexandra Eide
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By: Script Magazine |
Interview by Ryan Kelly for Script Magazine.
Rob Edwards wrote for some of the most acclaimed and popular television shows of all time—In Living Color and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, to name just two –and later transitioned from TV to film, with Disney’s Treasure Planet and The Princess and the Frog. He currently has several animated features in the works, including The Life and Times of Santa Claus and Amulet, in addition to developing his screenwriting education website, RobEdwards.net. I had the opportunity to sit down with Rob at The Writers Store and discuss everything from the art of animation to how the industry has evolved over the course of his remarkable career writing for film and television. MORE...
By: Script Magazine |
Interview by Ryan Kelly for Script Magazine.
Rob Edwards wrote for some of the most acclaimed and popular television shows of all time—In Living Color and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, to name just two –and later transitioned from TV to film, with Disney’s Treasure Planet and The Princess and the Frog. He currently has several animated features in the works, including The Life and Times of Santa Claus and Amulet, in addition to developing his screenwriting education website, RobEdwards.net. I had the opportunity to sit down with Rob at The Writers Store and discuss everything from the art of animation to how the industry has evolved over the course of his remarkable career writing for film and television. MORE...
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Summer of Dylan Ep from Scrawny Strange on Vimeo.
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