Within every speechwriter, most of us speechwriters assume, is a [to-be-famous] screenwriter. To help Hollywood find us we took screenwriting courses and even sent scripts on spec to Hollywood and independent film makers. If that assumption hadn't already gotten us a slot in film already maybe it's wise to let go of it.
In a major article "Unkind Unwind," THE ECONOMIST discusses how fewer Hollywood and commercial films are being made. Old Hollywood, most of us knew, was dying. Now we find out that money is even drying up for independent films. The reason is that the big revenue generation machine - the home-entertainment market - has been shrinking. That's where the films made money after their brief run in commercial movie houses.
Cheap rental services like Redbox have reduced the money potential. Studios make money when they sell than when they rent. In addition, Pay-TV is offering more for less and it's making that available on mobile phones and computers.
The business could be turned around, contends THE ECONOMIST, if traditional and independent film folks learn to market to consumers. Right now it's B2B.
Meanwhile, the assignments are coming in for us speechwriters in the form of creating scripts for YouTube and advertising. Video is everything. The challenge in making the shift from writing speeches to writing video scripts is the need to think visually and dramatically. I got a hang of that by studying the discipline of what's called "creative nonfiction."
Composing of poems and song lyrics are one of favorite pastime. Every time I do it, words come out my mind just like falling water. I want to enhance my knowledge about it so I decided to take Journalism on my college degree.
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