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Film Courage: What are the strengths and weaknesses of trying to go mainstream?
Glenn Gers, Author/Screenwriter/YouTuber: That’s tricky because I’m having a hard time defining what mainstream is right now.
When I was trying to go mainstream, it was the culture.
It was like all of American society was focused on essentially movies to a certain extent, theater, a little bit TV.
Over the course of my career that moved to TV but there was a unified center because of technological change the truth is the audience has broken up there’s a lot of people who never watch movies never watch TV, they’ll watch YouTube, and they’ll play video games, and they’ll do Twitch streams and there’s a lot of different forms in which they are finding their cultural truth.
So therefore mainstream is now there are some big entertainment companies doing big concert tours and big TV series and those are okay but I personally don’t feel that’s legitimately mainstream anymore.
It’s just the big show.
That doesn’t mean it’s mainstream.
I’m not sure that people are that invested in that stuff.
But let’s assume that we’re going to believe in the corporate entertainment industry as the mainstream and we’re going to say this is where things are.
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The strength of getting into that is:
A) Get a nice big audience,
B) In theory, you get a lot of money, although that is rapidly changing.
What used to be a very well-paid corner of art has now become a case where the companies are increasingly trying to turn the creators into gig workers.
Pay them as little as possible, keep them as uninvolved as possible, get their stuff and move on…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
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BIO:
Glenn Gers was a professional writer of movies and television for 25 years. His credits include theatrical features including FRACTURE (2007) and MAD MONEY (2008), no-budget indies like DISFIGURED (2008), TV staff work and episodes, original cable movies, and many more. He has won multiple festival prizes and an Emmy. He shares thoughts about creative writing on his Youtube channel and his Substack, both called “Writing For Screens.”
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