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Posted by: Don, August 4th, 2012, 9:08pm
Seller of Truth by Jacob Greenberg - Drama - A young Russian inventor can not find application for his "truth generator" however, despite the objection of the FSB (modern KGB), a rich buyer appears. 76 pages - pdf, format 8)
Posted by: Forgive, September 24th, 2012, 6:34pm; Reply: 1
Hi Jason. You've got a strange length going on here - bit short for a feature, bit long for a short.

Also, you might want to drop your 'Page 1' numbering.

There's some issues of you fisrt line - it comes across as a statement, and needs to be a description of a visual.

Unfortunately, we then move in camera directions - generally best avoided.

Okay. Five lines in, but there's still hope.

Your next scene take us from page 1 to half-way into page 9. That's not good.

This is a passive sentence:
'On a small blackboard are drawn with chalk some electrical circuit, formulas and graphics.'
Scripts should tend toward active sentences. It's also got some grammar issues.

'The bell rings at the door but Gregory makes a discontented face and does not respond to it.' Mis-use of the word 'but' wrecks the sentence.

Bottom of page 1 you have a paragraph which is trying to pass itself off as a sentence and you've claused the clauses of the clauses. I think.

Are we still on page 1?
Posted by: cloroxmartini, September 24th, 2012, 7:48pm; Reply: 2
Log line needs work.
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