In the second article looking back at Power to the Pixel’s London Forum, Michael Gubbins asks about the next steps for those wishing to embrace cross-media change.
A survey commissioned for next week’s Screenwriters Festival in Cheltenham revealed that more than 70% of writers questioned worked more than 10 hours per week on their feature film idea and nearly 40% more than 20 hours.
And the fruits of this extraordinary labour for nearly 70% of those correspondents? Nothing, not a penny. Just over 4% were making what might be called a decent wage.
It begs the question ‘why?’ – a question that could be asked of many of those working in the current system of finance, production and distribution. Read More