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Midtown
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I must be towards the high end of the words per page meter. I ended up at 15 pages / 3,442 words. Out of curiosity, I stripped out every single line of descriptive and ended up at 2,469 words. So, I'm averaging about 65 words of descriptive per page. Until I did an actual count, it felt pretty bare bones. Now, I'm wondering if I should try to get that down under 50 per page. |
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mcornetto
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Isn't the screenwriting challenge enough for you? |
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I'll show you mine... Heat 20 Comedy/A Chef
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Joni B
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Per the official RULES: 10% weight to the logline and its level of intrigue and 90% to STORY (Writing, Originality, Character Development and Plot Development).
As long as you're in within 15 pages, I wouldn't get too bound up about word count. I'd just keep in mind some general veins of thought, such as:
- white space ---- we love white space. Avoid huge blocks of narrative or dialogue and ensure plenty of white space on the page
- any blocks of description of 3 lines or more, take a peek at as you may be able to cut it back
- avoid all -ly adverbs -- they alert to lazy writing. Just find better verbs
- think brevity at all times... if lines/scenes don't provide key info or move the story along and if you can cut without losing anything, cut...
Not sure any of that helps, but hey....
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HarlequinOfHate
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I don't think that "-ly adverbs" necessarily suggest lazy writing, though I could in fact be the only one that feels this way.
While I agree that it is indeed essential for the writer to be well versed in the English language, writing that comes off as pretensious, or too intellectually forced can immediately turn someone off of a script.
I was taught to only write what needs to be said, and ensure that the point you're trying to make is very clear.
To quote a former professor of mine, "The people that pay to see these films don't care if you own a thesaurus or not. All they care about is the quality of the content you provide them. If you can make them care about what happens in the next scene, then you've succeeded."
Maybe that's why I've never worked with a major studio, or had a salary of more than $20,000 on a film. I want my tuition back!
~HoH~
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"They're all afraid of you. Like they're afraid of me." - The Joker, 'Batman:Fading Smile'
Coming 2008... |
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BarbaraFL
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Progress: I just read what's completed of my horror script - and it's a comedy. It is not scary at all. It reminds me of a MadTV spoof of a horror film.
Maybe THEY will buy it!
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DMC_2007
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All of that helps. I have some cutting to do for sure!!! Thank you !
Dawn
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DMC_2007
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You're tuition paid off.
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Twysted
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Heat 28 - Mystery/Mistaken Identity for me.
Done, edited, edited again, polished, polished, polished, polished, polished again,and then finished and submitted last night. (I have to continue working on my spec scripts!) The hardest thing for me was the title and logline. Now I have to figure out how to create some sort of web page and post the pdf file so it opens when you click on the link - no idea how to do that... |
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richke
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I'm starting on my 3rd.....page :)
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Heat #18 - The Darkness Within
http://www.richardthomaskeel.com/media/18_TheDarknessWithin.pdf |
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aurora68
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Try www.freewebs.com. If you set up an account, you can upload pdf files there, and then just post a link directly to the file. That's what we did last year and it worked like a charm. |
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