November 5, the Writers Guild of America launched a massive strike. But these are separated by vast oceans than U.S. counterparts, Chinese writers of the realistic situation much worse, even more remote hope of rights.
Thousand U.S. number of writers took to the streets, dozens of major U.S. television hit series at stake, the crisis facing off the air. incident has so far lasted two weeks, yet stop signs.
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standing on the sidelines, the Chinese writers are concerned about all this excitement . than their American counterparts separated by vast oceans, the reality of the situation of China's much worse writer, activist and more slim hope.
writers still rely on their parents more than two years to feed
25-year-old Beijing girl Zhang Qi (a pseudonym) is a day not to speak. wearing glasses, fat, she has good character, has recently often do not communicate with others, inexplicably lost his temper. parents carefully looked at her gloomy face, dared not speak. < br> a screenwriter is not easy, but I did not expect to be so difficult. , and has not seen his first film.
11, the U.S. writers strike spread the news media in China. In China separated by vast oceans, the writers organized as their U.S. counterparts, can stand in defiance and envy endless. were compiled after another interview with the media to express their dissatisfaction with the status quo, Haiyan, said, ; all Chinese writers strike from today! costs, and foster a high cost of education writers. out of a few years later there is still a difficult time in the defeat and darkness, until the first play written. Many writers have no income, or even rely on help from friends, parents should support. Bank --- screenplay. Zhang Qi naturally inclined to play, at university or drama club's president, on the writer's life is full of longing. She returned home to Beijing, in a newly developed film and television companies got his wish to do screenplay. but soon the company went bankrupt. Zhang Qi, a manager with one walk and started a real great writers is the following famous writers, we call the teacher. The teacher can give you kind of signed, the money will be given as much as promised. But not so in most cases. Of course, the level is very important to writers and writing too bad people of course do not want to. young, but lumbar spine, or have a problem. Zhang Qi persist for a while, creating a low tide to enter, thinking began to slow up. no new ideas, the boss is also not satisfied, had to leave.
too need to mix the circle, and resources are the most important. teachers, classmates, friends, friends of friends, relationships take lightly, is disorderly, then this job is to come. teacher to pull the line, with a last name with the stone of the old writers to write TV shows. This play is a place of government investment, but also to the local folk songs. outline written, but changed four times, from one million words changed to fifty thousand words, the producers are not satisfied. unsatisfactory for many reasons, such as they think, ; this woman is not bad, but some real small selfish nature is true, Qi finally get our hands on, only 5,000 dollars.
six months later, Zhang Qi met a famous writer in Hong Kong, the early 80s, this writer wrote the drama has swept the country. Zhang Qi followed him to Shanghai, day, we went to Jin Dingxuan eating dumplings at noon, afternoon, was told: This project was canceled. to wait with expectation, but more so the more disappointing the past six months, she only got 1.2 million, and any benefits and insurance are not.
threw more than two years later, Zhang Qi and pick up job several times, but did not get all of a money. She also learned the Minato integer it, to receive part of the deposit is lucky, many simply put in writing. time for a company to write sitcoms, written a month after being told a company manager for the project do not do a. one-month job White not do that even fares are not reimbursed. On another occasion, a friend introduced her to write a play in rural areas, rural teachers describe a movie, only willing to 6,000 yuan. This is a small enough, but also her down.
the past few years, Zhang Qi can not get capital to sustain life. frustrating when one day without saying a word, or every day, angry, anxious parents have read, down the drain is not written his own screenplay, ideas and skills in question. the people around us are trying to persuade me to give up, but I still like working with play-related. Drama graduate. Perhaps, she will therefore have a new world, perhaps, she will repeat the old way before, until not stick to it.
story of Zhang Qi not isolated cases.
the Central Drama Institute, Shanghai Academy of Drama, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now the Communication University of China) hh 22 colleges and universities across the country have an annual intake of dramatic literature undergraduate film and television literature to each school an annual intake of 45 students per year graduate department of the National Operas students, nearly 1,000 people. plus film directing part of the students, they are the writer and trained personnel.
Zhang Qi said, however, now most of the graduate students do not make us. a class, more than 80% of students do reporters, secretaries, as well as into the television, the real writers do very little. the industry. Jinan University, a training course on film and television writer, there is a 73-year-old woman. from the workers, soldiers, workers to a variety of industry you can imagine, there are writers who aspire to enter the industry. One writer told I, she met screenwriter course, there are as many pilots.
fledgling ten works may not be made into a
Zhe Yang is the director of the Central Academy of Drama graduate students in film and television. He is most impressed to school When teachers repeatedly emphasized: because they do not have enough guidance. ratio between how much? about ten to one. .
even made into a work, are far from famous. There is a saying that is: ten works of Chinese writers to write, can take five, three can be released, one to enter and prime-time, and that is lucky to.
for inexperienced young people, ten works are very lucky to have one made into. Zhe Yang own experience illustrates this point. is often a finished script, producers also disappeared. because of money or other reasons , investors withdraw, the writers work in vain. There policy factors, such as opera or police drama to catch up with curettage was blocked, write.
graduated more than a year, Zhe Yang did not shoot his first film. What works to make, but the day for them, it has been a very difficult. It is estimated they might switch to the. Zhe in angrily on his blog published an article, money, is a fledgling screenwriter things most frequently encountered the young writer Liao Yujing .80 in after seeing the news after the U.S. writers strike excitedly wrote in his blog, shouting: !, is the result of his adaptation, so the writer should be his. play the sentence is: exaggeration, if you see the director also signed screenwriter, I do have this suspect. often, and screenwriter famous for leading a difference thousands of miles, but investors willing to invest, because they known. As for the audience's feelings would not have taken into account, because it can get the best investment book writers, producers who have their own relationships and channels. and then the TV can be bad in the broadcast. . an interview that she accidentally made the acquaintance of the famous Hong Kong filmmaker Manfred Wong, given the opportunity to write a Song The feeling is that drilling, including real estate, foot City boss, can become investors. Many investors do not know the ropes, the tortured writer meal, and finally do not go on, now circulating the Internet to a blacklist of those bullying specifically for investors or companies, so the writers beware. but it does not have much effect, There are a lot a lot to do to join the novice wait, turned down a variety of other invited friends out even play that astronomical 20 million salary, so the producers specifically. The producer said, He dragged two weeks. to have been dragged on for a year and a half so. after signing the contract, waited six months before it really began. This had almost given up all income Cheng Yazi. I learned the first lesson. drama, such as The experience is very lucky, even a little legendary. sophomore year, she participated in an activity director was sitting next to a name. chat, the director wanted to make a youth talking about his idol, looking for young people to write the script. ring? h after written outline of the modifications made into the old writer, she began her career as the writer.
However, writers often encounter trouble, ring? h were also not spared. She is currently playing a lawsuit, the film is shot out, investors still owed the balance due to her script. The lawsuit, but it's useless to win, could not be enforced. He would not give money, no way. deposit, outline, draft, final version. deposit to ten percent, the outline by adding twenty percent, to forty percent complete draft of the script, change the final to give thirty percent complete.
Ya sub- told reporters that many self-deprecating screenplay is Screenplay fees even repudiate. so experienced writers will be asked to separate that part of the first draft took five sets to get one, or two or three sets to take time, in order to prevent risks.
ring? h once to help people write a screenplay, the other said, , it is difficult to collect evidence to accuse the other side. I learned that in the United States are each play registered in their unions, could be compared to the peer review, and even ten percent of suspected plagiarism are well documented. Ya son said that writers often have to pay after the finalization completed 30% of the royalties also buckle in the hands of the producers, American writers support ya son fills his work day. Shi Hong resentment than reward
a lot of people scrambling to get out of high deposit asked him to write a play.
but he remains resentful. in the United States before the writers strike, Shi Kang breath in his blog published ten articles of continuity to He throws in the hit series no hope! Entrepreneurship and love experience. XI play in the Beijing area during the Golden Week this ratings first. the same hit many provinces in the south, a great response.
shikang no secret to the reporters just a personal income account: the time he spent three years writing million, plus some bits of fragmented royalties, add up to 1.1 million dollars. three-year income of 1.1 million, more than 30 million per year.
The people at the forefront of the industry. If a write a to the good talent to enter. only a fool come in and take some Dry. write a play, if continuous write three years, mostly to write decadent, because , then the writer is almost always busy and no harvest, he would write a lot of outline, but no one two three draft to modify the results can only get some prepaid scrape.
TV drama in China's investment cost, Shi Kang is the crux of that. At present, China accounts for only a play writer's compensation budget 5% to 8%. The 32-hit series set of Beijing is only equivalent to a small mansion inside the ring, and even not worth the drama of a popular U.S. TV series starring a set income, and our hundreds of millions of people to lie on the front of the TV watching this cheap stuff too little interest, they had no opportunity to increase investment. because television rather cheap buy ten break can play, not willing to buy an expensive good show. remuneration, provide good conditions. Products.
Hai? _ emotion Chinese writer, rights, our writers are still in the level of adequate food and clothing. . In this year's five years will not have any effect. television drama all year backlog of thousands of sets. You can also pick and choose.
You can also go to the filming of advertising, writer right? writers, directors and actors, they can not be a prospering, but the loss was a loss both for sure. sharing, film fire, and earn more at the box office, it has nothing to do with the writer. This is an unreasonable allocation ratio.
present, TV writer's income is calculated according to each episode of the royalties. According to different regions and prices of different companies. novice about two or three thousand dollars a set, you can get skilled episode 5000-10000, an average of thirty or forty thousand veteran screenwriter episode has been very good.'s top writers, like Wang? _ such as first-line writers The remuneration of about 8 million in each episode.
movie is another way of payment, top writers, such as Liu Heng (war This figure is poor. lister single set fee of up to 15 million, and can be filming ads. They fought in a year three dramas and one or two movies, get a dozen ads mention the annual income of tens of millions . . see the actors have to take care of at the edge of the messenger, I found their dreams with the writer's really very different. added more scenes to help them get more opportunities to appearance, actors on the play's lack of respect, lightly changed. more changes to the worse it? most writers labor of his own creation, there is no right to speak. tens of thousands of people get a huge amount of profits, including the creation of very important people, our writers plan a blueprint for the entire movie. But with the increase in profit, our revenues are in the shrink. involved in large-scale causes of the strike, the United States Association of Film and Television Producers Writers Guild rejected a TV DVD and Internet downloads on the profit commission requires .5 day writers strike in the Paramount, Disney, Warner Brothers , NBC, and other famous parade in front of television headquarters. U.S. media reports said the strike caused the loss of 80 million U.S. dollars a day. because of the golden section of the United States generally are shot TV broadcast, many stations began struggling to survive. China audiences are familiar with the risk of a large number of plays are off the air, including ;.
counterparts in China, however, the U.S. is currently holding paid script is already the envy of many. American film producers alliance, said notice to respond, A writer can get $ 200,000 average salary. Class $ 21,000, prime-time drama class $ 31,000. Many writers more. Most writers are based on profit sharing, a hot film will get $ 4,000,000 writer. script and popularity. The U.S. has generally not to mention the drama director, mentioning mostly writers and actors. China's situation is completely different, who can pull to invest in, and got the money, but also has a relationship to get the television film Who is the most important. in the unregulated market environment, the writer is obviously one of the most vulnerable part.
Chinese writer of the Writers Guild of America the envy of such organizations. As a member of Writers Guild of America, the Chinese living in America Treats writer told reporters, this is a non-governmental organizations, to protect the interests of writers exist. not everyone can enter the Writers Guild of America, members of every quarter to pay dues to the union, and unions do not protect the writer's low wages at a minimum, but also to ensure that writers of medical care, unemployment benefits and insurance. Writers Guild strike is also to help writers through the organization to ask for more rights, such as the strike action, This is the largest. is to make money, we eat, drink some, calling conferences, where the results are not seen. . ring? h said that China's writers are also generally to pick out the name of the individual book, or that a large number of people to form organizations studio screenwriter. And she knew of several writers working for the Hong Kong TVB, a fixed salary, Regardless of the cost of living have to write do not write. This situation is very different with the mainland.
even compare to our neighbors South Korea and Japan, China's position is far better writer. It is understood that South Korea salary even higher than the stars, billions of (South Korea) per calculation. a South Korean drama Choupai cycle is generally two and a half, from television or a good writer to determine topics, the director, screenwriter, producer, co-organized three script, select the scene, writers and even actors directly involved in the selection. This is the drama one of the reasons that swept Asia.
like China, almost all of the presentation ceremony for best screenplay prize, up to accept the award are director, assistant director. Zhang placed at home plate, suspended 3 times, only to find his name 1. The reason is it flashes too fast. As for the writers on the status of income and complaints are everywhere.
Haiyan is the only writer by profit sharing, royalties of up to hundreds of thousands per episode. But very few such people.
producer, a considerable degree of certainty. And at home, the community's elite will not choose to do list. because the bitter, the income is too low. Moreover, the U.S. drama TV series of investment and our investment is also night and day of production Do not.
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