These are truly people who deserve our respect. If it wasn’t for them we would stay at home bored and with nothing to watch on our TV’s. We would be home but we would still be in some kind of prison. Well, okay, we would just communicate more with each other and communication would be a greater part of our daily routine.
As you suppose rightly the job of the scriptwriter is to write scripts. This might seem as an easy task, but nowadays when there are thousands of series and millions of stories told how could one create something that hasn’t been told already. I’ve heard that for the CSI movies, there are scriptwriters that just come and go – they just give the ideas and the main scriptwriters then do everything else in order for that idea to become a movie that we see (or a part of series). Scriptwriters are people of art who need to have an endless source of ideas that haven’t been realized already. They need to find the extraordinary in everything and turn it into something that all people would like watching. It’s great, when you begin your career you have the idea that you’ll never come to a mental block because you have thousands of ideas. Two reasons are going to change that with time, the first one is that you’re going to forget most of the ideas you already have thought of and the second is that you’ll have the feeling that the story would have already been told. It’s not that simple, nobody likes to copy from the others and get booed for that when the public sees the result on TV, but it might happen. There still isn’t advanced enough technology to create a database that compares scripts and tells if there is just too much similarity between them.
The scriptwriter also has to be a good team leader because nowadays movies have at least 5-10 scriptwriters who compile the ideas for the show. You need to be a good listener because sometimes even the most menial of ideas turn out to be genius. Sometimes the idea that sounds ridiculous or already used is the most unique. A scriptwriter has to be a very observant person because he could get hundreds of ideas in his everyday routine if he has the ability to see the artistic part in it.



