Commissioning
of a Script
When
creating a script, many writers have to have it commissioned in order to have
it created as a film in the end. There are many stages to commissioning, and
many people involved in the process. One of the most important people is the
producer, who has to decide on the script used for a movie, meaning they get a
very vital say in the script.
A
commissioning editor and an agent will typically get involved for contacting
the different parties and making arrangements between writers and producers,
and they will address issues with deals, scripts or plans that need to be
changed for a final draft of the script. Many producers will be involved, and
all of them will typically have a team involved helping in choosing the script,
and they will also be tasked with choosing directors to help create the final
product, and will assist in choosing the cast and crew involved. They will
often work close with each other to help rewrite anything or make any necessary
changes in the script, to ensure it is completed to perfection.
Often,
organisations or corporations may get involved with hiring and firing people,
making decisions on what happens to the script and the product and deciding
many things in the process. If they are not involved with a company, then the
producer or director may be independent; independent films may be a lower
budget, but they may not be a lower quality if there is a good writer, director
and/or producer involved in the production.
Script
editors may also be used, but, unlike the name suggests, do not do writing, and
provide guidance and help to the writers and producers on what changes may be
good to make to give an explanation to things in the script. If more than one
writer provides a script for a certain project, there will often be competition
involved to try and have a better script than one another in order to have
their script chosen over the other ones, and it can make it hard for a company
to have to try and choose one over the other, which may make them look in-depth
and consider what works.
Copyright
material or plagiarism may or may not be involved in the script, and it will
require discussions with agents to contact companies on the availability of the
content to help decide which script will be best, as well as deciding on
necessary edits of material that may not be usable due to being owned by other
people or organisations.
There are
many stages to getting a script commissioned, such as planning before the
production, or may even be editing the script slightly while it’s being shot,
as even the most perfect script will need changes to it to make it viable to
fit the director’s vision. The script will have page lock-downs put in place so
that any further changes can be tracked, and allowing only the revised pages to
be created fully and published in the final script.
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