Scenario Writing for the Movies
This is a highly technical but very well paid task, and one which every screen author should learn. The chance to enter the studio and help work out the scenario of your own story is worth trying for.
Scenarios today are more in demand than ever before; but producers are still chary of taking chances on untried amateurs. The amateur author’s greatest success is when he sells his first story. The road is comparatively easy after that. The price paid stories depends upon the reputation of the author and the standing of the company which buys them.
Published stories and novels, and plays which have had a run, bring enormous prices.
The highest paid workers in the movies today are the continuity writers, who put the stories into scenario form and write the “titles” or written inserts. The income of some of these writers runs into
