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Posted by: Don, March 20th, 2012, 5:26pm
Arpeggio by Vincent Chin (vincentchin88) - Comedy, Romance - An aspiring musician and his old college buddy cross path in an airport and decides to help each other break-up with their girlfriends back home. 97 pages - pdf, format 8)
Posted by: Forgive, March 21st, 2012, 4:17pm; Reply: 1
Hi - I'm not sure you first slug is correct - it should be a location, not the colour we see on the screen??

I'm also not entirely convinced by you use of CAPS:

# A ladle of sauce is deftly SPREAD CIRCULARLY on the dough.

-- Far as I know CAPS are generally used for sound, and sometimes for impact.

Your 'conductors baton' simile misses the mark for me - but then I guess this depends on how you're visualising it.

A quick one on your character descriptions - Roy is described by his clothes - it leaves his face a little blank in my head - it may be better to go for something that will sum Roy up in our heads.

# Wished we had more time to talked
things out.
-- should be 'talk'.

Dialogue seems to be okay - quite snappy in places.

I haven't read too far into this - but I'm not sure why we have started in a pizza place - also, the way Roy leaves all seems a little bit odd. I half thought you'd start at the airport, or maybe give an early hint of the g\f problems etc. The actual meeting of the two guys is very 'boof!' - it just happens - there's no leading element and no 'drama' to the scene - it's just 'oh hi Kev' job done.

Does have potential I guess - but needs jazzing-up a little.

Simon
Posted by: vincentchin88, April 25th, 2012, 7:00pm; Reply: 2
Thanks Simon. Appreciate your feedback and will do the needful.

Regards,
Vincent,
Posted by: ottercat, April 27th, 2012, 12:20pm; Reply: 3
Yeah your 1st slug should the be location (Resturant) then use insert(s) for the dough and oven.
Posted by: vincentchin88, April 29th, 2012, 12:58am; Reply: 4
Thanks Ottercat for your time in looking at it. Will do an edit on the script.

Appreciate your feedback.

Regards,
Vincent
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