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Posted: March 2nd, 2018, 5:45pm Report to Moderator
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Something Awful by Marcello Degliuomini - Short, Drama - Two shady cops, a troubled teen, and a missing girl, come to a head on a late night call. 15 pages - pdf, format

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Don  -  March 6th, 2018, 5:42pm
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Thanks Don for uploading the new draft.



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Marcello - gave these a read. Hope these notes help in some way.


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VICKY
No sweetie. Go back to bed.


Need a comma after No.

A nitty issue, but: this


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EXT - SUBURBAN STREET - NIGHT


Probably should either be INT/EXT. PATROL CAR - TRAVELLING - NIGHT

or

INT PATROL CAR- NIGHT

Since all of the subsequent action takes place inside the car.


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VICKY’S HOME/ JOSH’S BEDROOM - NIGHT


Should be:

INT. VICKY’S HOME/ JOSH’S BEDROOM - NIGHT


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ROBERTS
Good evening Ma’am. You called the
Police tonight?


Need a comma after evening. I won't mention again suspecting that you have it in other places, but whenever you have a name/title of someone being addressed - there needs to be a comma. e.g., It's "How are you doing, Dave - not - How are you doing Dave.


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EXT. VICKY’S HOUSE


Missing NIGHT.

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INT: VICKY’S HOME


Missing NIGHT.

You also have this problem throughout.

I'm at the point where the officers have their gun drawn on Josh - struck me as odd that they wouldn't have shot him right then.


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VICKY
If this is some kind of sick joke..
I’m not laughing.
ROBERTS
No ma’am, no joke. Just a very
fucked up situation for you.


I didn't care for the above dialogue at all - they've already essentially told her they're going to kill her - pretty sure she is beyond the - is this a joke thing.Just seemed like an unnatural reaction.

Not crazy about the ending.

Best of luck


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Hey thanks for giving it a read.

I actually took out NIGHT intentionally at one point. Like I literally went back and removed NIGHT from every slug. I guess I figured once the story was set at the house. Then the back and forth NIGHT slug wasn't needed. I guessed wrong.

Appreciate the advice on the patrol car slug. Wasn't too sure if I had to use INT or EXT in the car scene. Now I know.

And that dialogue where it's revealed to Vicky the officers next move, was something i was toying over a bit. Changed it couple times.. I wanted to show Cruz's confliction about what was happening.  But by adding that, I subseqently was stuck with Vicky's character not fully believing what was happening. Probably should have just killed her off and cut that out. oh well.

Im a little rusty I know lol.. Havn't sat down and wrote in like 3 years. But im gonna get back on it.

Thanks again man.



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My pleasure - twas an easy read.

For what it's worth - the NIGHT thing is just a standard format issue and I clearly knew it was night. So who knows, perhaps your way is crisper.


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Fixed a few things,  cut it down a few pages, and tweaked the ending. I think this works better.



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