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SimplyScripts Screenwriting Discussion Board / Short Scripts / Unwanted Collateral
Posted by: Don, April 28th, 2012, 8:23am
Unwanted Collateral by Grace A. Fynn - Short, Comedy - A creditor kidnaps the daughter of his debtor but soon realizes his error. 10 pages - pdf, format 8)
Posted by: kingcooky555, April 28th, 2012, 8:53am; Reply: 1
It's continuous not continues.
All caps for first intro of characters and at least one line of description to get us a picture of the main characters.
Action lines/sentences could use more tightening/succinctness.
I stopped on the first paragraph on page 2 because of this:
Clara pours the food into a pot and places it on the
stove. Five minutes later, she serves it into two plates,
giving Anna one.
This is a 10 page script which assumes ten minute short, but if you include that description, you'll have 5 minutes of clara cooking the food. No one wants to see that. Instead of a continuous slug, just cut to the part when the food is ready.
Posted by: Forgive, April 29th, 2012, 1:57pm; Reply: 2
Hi Grace - nice to see you doing some shorts - maybe you'll pop on the boards sometime?
I like the story idea here, but it was tricky getting to it, as the writing wasn't totally suited to a script. It was half-novel half-script.
BOSS
Come back immediately. We have a
problem.
CLARA
Yes please.
-- didn't quite make sense.
... Two roles of people numbering twenty
-- Two rows of people(?)
So it's a nice idea - but needs to come across with more visual clarity.
Best of luck.
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