Staff Writers
Not Required for a staffed Screenwriter.
What is a college degree?
A description of location and time a scene takes place.
What is a Slugline or scene heading?
Wrote Inglorious Bastards
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
Required for a successful on spec Screenwriter
What is experience?
A necessary skill for a staff writer
What is Teamwork?
How to write a character's name for the first time
What is in all caps?
Wrote Do the Right Thing
Who is Spike Lee?
A necessary skill for an on spec screenwriter. (Hint: in some cases even more so than a staff writer)
What is networking?
The major pro staff writers have that on spec writers don't
What is a steady salary?
The most commonly used font for screenplays
What is courier font?
Wrote Nope
Who is Jordan Peele?
WGA unabbreviated
What is the Writers Guild of America?
The average salary of staff writer
What is Between $56,292 and $78,374?
A note or direction on how a particular line of dialogue or action is delivered by a character
What is a parenthetical?
Wrote Independence Day
Who are Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin?
The average salary of an on spec screenwriter
What is $68,690?
The number of writers including the head writers on the Saturday Night Live Staff
What is 32?
Average length of a feature length film script
What is between 95 and 125 pages
Wrote Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Who is Cameron Crowe?
The minimum payment required by the WGA for an original screenplay and treatment from a high budget project
What is $152,461?