Great dialect adds a lot to your script, unless you spell it the way it sounds, in which case it’s very annoying because it stops being reading and turns into breaking code. Go easy on the apostrophes, darlin’. I’s fixin’ ta gin y’all a whuppin’ iff’n ya don’t.
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Notes from a Screenreader: The Deep Freeze Script nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Scripts that feel rote turn readers off right away even though rote scripts are written by people who know exactly what they’re doing. The plot moves forward, the conflicts are in place, the beats come and go like clockwork. Scoring…
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100 PAGES OF ROCK SOLID VISUAL STORYTELLING
REALLY HAVE YOUR PROTAG MAKE SOME NOISE
Honestly, if your character can accomplish everything they set out to do without leaving any sign of a struggle…it really wasn’t that important.
Read moreTHERE’S NO THIRD ACT
tmblranon: from this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1r5y6l/ive_covered_300_spec_scripts_for_5_different/ The original is one poster over 7k px wide. Open in new page should give you each in readable size. The thread is worth perusing. I see my whole blog is captured in this graphic. My work here is done.
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boojum.as.arizona.edu Spec scripts have this tendency to fall back on dramatic near misses. Like, if Jane found out Pedro cheated, the wedding would be off, but thank goodness that didn’t happen fifteen different times, and here comes the bride. Actually, no. Jane finds out. Impact. Now Jane and Pedro have a megaton of ejecta material…
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