Let's say you're writing a script that involves a profession (a "world-) that is very specialized and all the book and internet research in the world isn't going to help you write truly authentic-sounding dialogue for the work place scenes. With past scripts I have called experts in their respective fields with a question or two, but I never felt like I was taking advantage of anyone's time since as I said my questions were few and relatively short and the specialists seemed happy to help me. In this case, it would require really sitting down with someone to help fill in the blanks (plus presumably some follow up questions at a later date) and I'm trying to figure out what kind of compensation would be appropriate and fair to offer someone for this kind of help and expertise. Has anyone ever been in a similar situation? If so, how did you handle it?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Comment