Episode 42: Abhinandan Sridhar- Building a screenwriting career in the New Media Age
About Abhinandhan Sridhar:
My next guest on The One Percent Project is Abhinandan Sridhar. Abhinandan is a screenwriter who kicked off his career as an assistant director to Andhadhun writer and National Award-winning filmmaker Hemanth M Rao. His writing credits include Netflix's Little Things Seasons 3 & 4 and Teen Tigada, a film for Prime Video's Unpaused anthology.
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In this conversation, he talks about:
How have OTT platforms disrupted the creation process and the new media industry?
His experience working with Netflix as a creator.
What should new creators do when kicking off their careers?
His research technique and what has he learnt from Pixar's filmmaking process?
How does one judge and manage execution in creative processes such as filmmaking?
What are the attributes of a head writer?
How are OTT platforms enabling creators to be producers?
Some Key Highlights:
As a new creator, you need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the characters you are enamoured by to the extent that you should be ready to write a 15 page Wikipedia entry on them. The knowledge and writing will help you be clear on why you are doing this and who you are doing it for.
Every creator should refer to Pixar's iterative research process and the use of their 'Brain Trust'; creators who have made previous Pixar movies come together to validate each new idea.
This is the era of the creator. There is much money being pumped in the industry for original ideas and passionate storytelling. If creators can pull up their socks, this is their time.
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