How Does a Screenwriter Spend a Workday?
New Day for Hollywood The old system is gone, and no longer are screenwriters’ offices found in neat little bungalows on the back lots of the big movie studios. But that doesn’t mean screenwriters are disappearing too. In fact, screenwriters are needed not just for the movies but for original DVDs, TV shows and made-for-TV movies, computer games and business and educational applications. Movie Sets Everywhere A screenwriter for a movie may go to its filming location to check dialogue, or over to the wardrobe department to find out if the actors are able to move in their costumes as she envisioned. There are a lot of people on a movie set who have input on the script you’ve written: the director may want you to completely re-write a scene, because he’s interpreting it differently from what the original script portrayed, or an actor doesn’t agree with the lines you want her to say. The producer may want some lines added or subtracted because the movie’s financial backers would be offende
