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Posted by: Don, December 10th, 2006, 3:03pm
Waldo and Claire by Jordan Baker - Action, Drama - At the low point of his career, Waldo Whitman finds himself a companion in the same boots as him. Now they're together the amount of people in their wake shoots up as they're chased by ex-boss's, ex-boyfriend's and federal police. A love story with a hunt, an easily accessible bank vault and an overly suspicious small-town sheriff, ending with guns pointed at everybody. 99 pages - pdf, format 8)
Posted by: JD_OK, December 10th, 2006, 9:34pm; Reply: 1
I popped this open and I already see alot of rookie mistakes.

Remove all, references to the camera and we hear and we see. get rid of this we can not see. You start off tellin a story like out of a book. script is to be written on what can be seen on screen.

read a few scripts in here that have over 30 replies. Those usually are written in correct form and less distracting of a read. Do not get discouraged alot of us made these same mistakes at our first attempts, because we have seen script PRODUCTION scripts with this info on them. WE HOWEVER are writing SPEC scripts, which should not those things inside.

Good luck with your edit.
Posted by: JordanRD, December 10th, 2006, 10:56pm; Reply: 2
Hey thanks for the advice and sorry.

But just wondering if there was anything else that you read that you liked. If you just scrapped it after the first couple pages then don't worry but I'm interested to hear if you have anything else to say about what you read and I'll get any of those style things corrected.

Thank you, Jordan.
Posted by: JD_OK, December 10th, 2006, 11:19pm; Reply: 3
No, I didnt actually read the story. Me personally I can't get myself to read past the 'rookie' mistakes. its hard for me to get into the story, when I'm told shoots and stuff.

Also most (some will) not read a story without 1st agreeing with the writer to exchange screenplays for feedback.

however Your opening scene is good to peek interests. But has to be reworded majorly. You start naming off character like we have already be introduce to them. 1St intro of chars needs to be capitalized.
Posted by: JordanRD, December 11th, 2006, 5:10pm; Reply: 4
Aside from the very first scene which is the first half of a page I don't think I use too many 'we hear', or 'we see'. It's just with that type of scene there that I needed it to be short and sweet and just there. I don't really introduce those characters at that time because they get introduced later and that whole scene comes back and gets detailed later. Otherwise all the characters are capped with their intros and those characters that are in that first scene all get intros later and are then capped, but I understand that, that might be more unconventional.

But thanks anyways.
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