Quoted from RayW Comedy pisstakes are a known disqualified entry.

Obviously nobody told me.... I pisstook the shit out the last OWC

Mark

ur pisstake was a misstake.

Quoted from rc1107 I just ran a script report on mine now, and it ended up being 61% action lines and 39% dialogue.

39 versus 61 is pretty good compared to mine. ;D

After messing with final draft a little, I finally got mine up. 45% Action and 46% dialogue... The 6% left is assigned to "character", not sure what that means but okay.

Quoted from nawazm11 After messing with final draft a little, I finally got mine up. 45% Action and 46% dialogue... The 6% left is assigned to "character", not sure what that means but okay.

I just checked mine and I'm up to 0% Dialogue, 0% Action...

Hell, I haven't even started a new project yet!

Quoted from danbotha I just checked mine and I'm up to 0% Dialogue, 0% Action... Hell, I haven't even started a new project yet!

Ray checked his and it was 2% take and 98% piss...

For what it's worth, mine's in. I can't tell you if it has mimes though, don't want to ruin the surprise.

Now that i'ved finished reading 40 posts by ray on, err.....not much, I thankfully have been reminded by you kind folks - damn you all - that EACH character must have a supranat, a souprana, a superdoopernan...oh whatever it's called, event.

One superthingy short at the moment. Need to go back.

Mine's still an extremely rough draft (and 15 pages long), but it comes in at

50% Action
38% Dialogue
11% Character & Scene Heading
1% Mimes

Not too bad so far. Although, I admit, I COULD increase my mime percentage a bit.

Quoted from danbotha I just checked mine and I'm up to 0% Dialogue, 0% Action...

Nice call.

Quoted from Steex Mine's still an extremely rough draft (and 15 pages long), but it comes in at

I've still got a lot to work on mine, just thought I'd bang it out when I had some free time and fix it up later. I'm actually surprised that they came in at such a high number, I was thinking mine would be somewhere around 6 pages but it was way longer.

Quoted from RayW ur pisstake was a misstake.

My title is Motel pisstake.... Where all the characters take supernatural pisses out in the hurricane... It gets everywhere..

Mark

Quoted from Bill I thankfully have been reminded by you kind folks - damn you all - that EACH character must have a supranat, a souprana, a superdoopernan...oh whatever it's called, event.

I believe this was discussed somewhere on the thread (though I'm not sure which page) and I think Don said that at least one of the central characters had to have a history of a supernatural event.

Quoted from nawazm The 6% left is assigned to "character", not sure what that means but okay.

Pretty sure that 'character' means the line that says which character is speaking the dialogue, and the 'scene' is the slug lines.  (The INT. or EXT. lines.)

I just chalked the character towards the dialogue.

So technically, now after a couple changes lastnight, It's 51% Action, 29% Dialogue, 16% Character, 3% Scene and 1% Transition.

And 10% rewrite, since I like to give 110%.

What program/utility are you guys using for these content breakdowns?

Quoted from RayW What program/utility are you guys using for these content breakdowns?

Quoted from stevie Ray checked his and it was 2% take and 98% piss...

D@MNATION!
Where am I supposed to insert the bull sh!t?!

(goes get axe, starts chopping out the "take")

I am trying to write something for this challenge and I decided that the challenge is very challenging and no challenge was ever very challenging safe this very challenge.

My brain's in a knot. Or not. Just yet.

Hey Ray.

I use Trelby screenwriting software.  It can run script, location, scene, and character reports, and also even dialogue charts, letting you know how much screentime the characters are getting, how often they're in the story, and how often they're not.

I'm pretty sure all this stuff would be useful for a director working on a shooting script and breaking down information for certain shoots, and probably for figuring out which order to cast the actors in the credits if he doesn't want to use alphabetical order.

To be honest, as a spec writer, this is really my first time even looking into those kind of things.  I tend to tell every story differently until I find my style, so I don't pay attention to how much dialogue or action I'm using, as long as I'm getting the story across in the best way possible.

As a numbers guy, though, it is still fun to look at, although I probably won't run any reports until I'm done with at least the first or second drafts of anything.