This is for an assignment for a college class on screenwriting. The final assignment of the year is to write a 20-22 page screenplay, and this particular assignment, which is due on Nov 5th, is to write a 5-8 page act 1.

Logline: When a mean-spirited prankster pranks a psycho homeless man, he begins being chased around and realizes that his pranks have cost him help from anyone.

NOTE: This was originally written in celtx since we are required to for the class, but I copied it into Google Docs as per the rules of this board.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NdsvYPs4WvZl6fFKP2RxnGpu6cr635OjtVXeWr7le60/edit?usp=sharing

You are going to need a title page, that's just by the by.

I also want to ask you, and I don't want to appear disparaging or discouraging but have you seen what a screenplay should look like? You need to look at what they look like (the formatting) cause you're way off with everything. The thing is if it's not formatted correctly (dialogue indented correctly etc.) your page numbering is not going to be accurate.

The good news is there are plenty of Pro and Amateur scripts you can look at, right here.

A 'psycho' homeless man of 18? I'd delete the psycho bit unless he is in fact deranged in some way or psychotic in which case it might be better to give a more accurate meaning.

The prankster is the off kilter one if you ask me though.

Anyway, you need to let Celtx do the formatting for you:

EXT. Building Entrance - DAY
Building Entrance should be capped, but then your guy is sitting on the grass so you need an additional opening description there.

JOHNNY (19) sat on the grass crouched as BOB, (1 walked over to the doorway opening it. Johnny covered his mouth trying to not laugh when Bob opened the door and a bucket of water
fell onto him, soaking him. Johnny let out the biggest fit of laughter.

Screenplays need to be present tense.

Example:
By the door, JOHNNY (19) crouches on the grass (I suggest you add some physical description of Johnny.) hand clamped over his mouth stifles a laugh.

BOB (1, completely oblivious, throws the door open wide, just as - a bucket of water falls on him, soaks him to the skin.

Johnny lets out the biggest fit of laughter.
Johnny laughs hysterically would be better.

This dialogue:
JOHNNY
Ha! You fell for one of the classic blunders!

Needs to be formatted as per your Dialogue stream in Celtx, like this:

                 JOHNNY
           Ha! You fell for one of the
           biggest blunders!

Johnny sits lays down on his bed and
pulls out his phone. He sees Instagram posts of people as he scrolls through
That's a mix of all sorts of tenses.

Johnny lies down on his bed, pulls out his phone, scrolls through Instagram posts.

Okay, just starting you off there.
It's good it's not due yet.

Everything must be written present tense.
And to Industry Standard Formatting.

You can do it, you just need to know what and how to do it.

I hope you read this in the spirit intended.

Post page 1 again.

P.S. Those 'cool smiley' faces result from the copying of the character ages btw. Just ignore that.


P.S. I just re-read and noticed you said you transferred from Celtx to a doc file so maybe this is where you lost all your formatting.

You can actually post a PDF from Celtx, or Dropbox or a link to a Google Drive file etc to retain your formatting.

Still lots of fixing needed, regardless.
I say this cause you want to get a good mark.

Should I repost the first page as a separate discussion post or just reply here? Also, yes I know the correct formatting, but the rules just said that it's preferred to host the link to Google Docs, and that website is not particularly good with script formatting, hence why my professor had us use either Final Draft or Celtx...

Hi again, if I were you just save the whole thing (it's not long) to a PDF file then post a share link via Google Drive (not Docs) or Dropbox or equivalent. Make sure you enable sharing so people don't have to request permission to access the file.

This is a repost of my previous post due to formatting being lost, but basically this is an assignment due on the 5th. For some other things in Act 1, it needs to answer the following:
What is the protagonist good at?
What is their character flaw?
What is the Inciting incident?
When is Act 1 over?
What is the major dramatic question?
Basically, I'm new to script writing so I don't know if I did good or if I need to rewrite the whole thing. Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d60DpCf3bcEYuVzan4Q1SBJuX-qY5--I?usp=share_link