About $0 USD.

Make Love Not War!

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Originally posted by mandor700

About $0 USD.

Make Love Not War!

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LMAO, your funny.

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Originally posted by GhostPoet

If I have a 30 page, low-budget script I want to sell to an indie company/director...how much should I ask for? What's the typical going rate or market standard for something small like this?

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it all depends on what else you've done and if you've ever sold anything before. generally stargin out you may have to go with no pay, just credit and copy. after that maybe no pay upfront and a percent of the profit. also another typical situation is 1% of the budget. it all depends if you're more interested in making money or making the movie. seldome does anyone in this biz make money until they build up a resume, and after that, it ain't easy. if it was everyone would do it....

Thanks I appreciate it. I'm doing this primarely to tell stories. Money is just a good bonus. 🙂

I said exactally what I mean, the truth. If you took an average of all the scripts sold and rounded it off chances are you will come out with that figure.

I dont apreciate being criticised by someone with 11 posts...

Make Love Not War!

Make love not war,yeah. the reality of it is, I dont think I have ever heard of anyone buying a 30 minute script. no market. someone could make a little money on cable. Animation would be the exception.

I agree with Karl10. You've got to consider what's in it for the producer/director. In the case of a 30 min short, very little.

As has been said many times before, there are always exceptions to every rule (or else rules would simply be called "the way it is"). But since you're asking for a quasi-formula, you're going to get an answer that has been run through a statitics mill - and that answer is actually not far from the original reply you got... zero.

We all love the medium; making movies / watching movies. And some of us are even insane enough to take their passion one step further and try their own hand at it. But remember, art is its own reward. But art without compensation is nothing more than colorful and time-consuming introspection. What I'm trying to say is... can you develop this short into a 90 minute feature? Then you'll have a market.. and the rest is up to you.

If not, you should enjoy your 30 min script and I'm sure you will have no problem finding an enthusiastic auteur-sans-script in your area who like nothing more than a ready-to-roll piece of work to bite his/her teeth into.

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Alternatively...

You could throw any your script and then do the following...

1. Set up a website that's full of BS

2. Get a group of actors to run around doing the following (I've constructed a pseudo code loop so you get the idea):

while (Actors Still Alive)
Actors All Shout "Get me the * outta here" or "*!" or "* ** compass! ** ** * map!"
End While Loop

3. Make sure that the actors run around a lot with the handheld cameras (who needs camera people or cinematographers) - they need to really shake the camera so that you haven't a clue what's going on.

4. Make sure that the actors turn off the camera so that the audience that paid ?10 to watch a movie, end up watching a blank screen for minutes on end, with the actors still shouting "** was that? ** ** * map? ** compasss?!"

5. Finally, with no need for a script or film crew you finally get the actors to act a scene that refers to a creepy story that was mentioned earlier in the film. Oooooh. Scary.

Yup, the Blair Witch Project - a 90 minute feature that earned millions. And it was a pile of pooh. There's no justice 😉

Ray

serious about nothin' 'cept film