The role of a agent

Judy and I were watching a secret spy show on TV while it was raining. I really don't remember the name but I think it was AGENTS WITH SHIELDS or something. We only watched a minute of it because Judy got confused and I muted it and before I unmated it the show ended!

It took me about five minutes to understand the confusion because Judy had heard me talking about getting an agent for my writeing the other day but then got confused about secret agents portrayed on TV. I don't doubt there have been some agents to double as secret agents at some point in the past (that is actually a pretty good movie idea) but for sipmler explantation I focused on just one. The writers agent. She didn't know exactly what they did and I wanted to explain to her and also any of you who may not have understood the question the other day what an agent does and why I need one.

Agents are people who go to parties and meet everyone they can and then call them all to learn about them. This gives them a good bit of knowledge about everyone they meet and gives them the ability to use those people to help there clients in the future. This is the meet and greet process, step one of an agents work.

Next, agents do step 2, which is to meet with a bunch of potential "clients." Depending on what type of agent the client could be a writer or a actor or a stunt man. I would be needing writers agents so for my case the agent meets a bunch of writers. Then he picks the one he wants to represent.

For step 3, after an agent has a "client" he can show that clients work to all of the people he met in step 1. Some of them then give money to the agent for the writer and the movie gets made! I guess a writer could also be his own agent but that seems very complicated since so much work goes into the first few steps that it would be hard to find time to write.

Most agents are in Hollywood Califnornia because it's filled with so many more people to get money from to make movies (like tv studios and movie companies).

Hopefully that was helpful to break the process down. I may have missed a couple of details but this is intended like those FOR DUMMIES books that are so easy to read in the book store.