Comments on: Asked & Answered: I don’t have a formal contract. How do I make sure I get my credit? http://firemark.com/2009/10/12/creditcontract/ Theatre, Film, Television, Music & New Media Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:22:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Gordon Firemark http://firemark.com/2009/10/12/creditcontract/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Gordon Firemark Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:13:24 +0000 http://firemark.com/?p=711#comment-224 Thanks Steve - Of course if you're a writer, and don't have director "chops", shooting a bad short can be worse than not having anything to show for your work at all!.. Thanks Steve -

Of course if you’re a writer, and don’t have director “chops”, shooting a bad short can be worse than not having anything to show for your work at all!..

]]> By: Steve Peterson http://firemark.com/2009/10/12/creditcontract/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Steve Peterson Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:26:55 +0000 http://firemark.com/?p=711#comment-214 I imagine there's also a pretty decent chance that their filming plan fell apart and the director is now too embarrassed to talk to him after requiring all that work. Filming a short is easy to get excited about because it sounds easy -- then really easy to dump since there's so little benefit from making one and, moreover, filming it typically turns out looking not as easy as originally thought. As a writer I'd suggest trying to contact them again, getting the rights back, and perhaps shooting it yourself since directing a short will do more for your career than writing one. I imagine there’s also a pretty decent chance that their filming plan fell apart and the director is now too embarrassed to talk to him after requiring all that work.

Filming a short is easy to get excited about because it sounds easy — then really easy to dump since there’s so little benefit from making one and, moreover, filming it typically turns out looking not as easy as originally thought.

As a writer I’d suggest trying to contact them again, getting the rights back, and perhaps shooting it yourself since directing a short will do more for your career than writing one.

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