{"id":48,"date":"2007-04-28T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/28\/after-your-first-paying-gig\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T04:24:23","slug":"after-your-first-paying-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/after-your-first-paying-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"After Your First Paying Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dust clears, you&#8217;ve finished your first ever paying project and you&#8217;re feeling <em>affirmed<\/em> by the cheque burning the crease of your palm. Your first question, of course, is, <em>Do Credit Suisse accept KiwiBank cheques?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other questions soon assail you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are my financial obligations? Do I need an accountant? If I can&#8217;t afford an accountant, what&#8217;s a handy accounting tool I can use &#8211; a spreadsheet or something more powerful? If I must start from scratch, who\/where can I get the information, in plain English, to get me started?<\/li>\n<li>What is my work worth? What if the producer laughs when I show them the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzwritersguild.org.nz\/pdfs\/writingrates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Guild Recommended Minimums<\/a>? How can I set my price?<\/li>\n<li>What are my legal obligations? Do I need a lawyer? If I can&#8217;t afford a lawyer, what&#8217;re the bare essentials I need to know regarding my contracts?<\/li>\n<li>How do I get more work? Do I <em>have<\/em> to market myself? <strong>How<\/strong> do I market myself? Do I need an agent? How do I get an agent? Do I need a manager? How do I get one? Do I <em>have<\/em> to network?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, your first gig tastes sooo sweet &#8211; you&#8217;re no longer some wet-nosed I&#8217;ll-get-around-to-it dreamer. You&#8217;re a <strong>professional<\/strong> screenwriter now, baby.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0145487\" target=\"_blank\">Spiderman<\/a> discovered, <em>with great power comes great responsibility<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dust clears, you&#8217;ve finished your first ever paying project and you&#8217;re feeling affirmed by the cheque burning the crease of your palm. Your first question, of course, is, Do Credit Suisse accept KiwiBank cheques? Other questions soon assail you: What are my financial obligations? Do I need an accountant? If I can&#8217;t afford an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/after-your-first-paying-gig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;After Your First Paying Gig&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[274,18,397],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","tag-contracts","tag-new-zealand-writers-guild","tag-spiderman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}