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Shrug: Butcher Boy
(prev. Green My Eyes)

02:11 / 21.11.07

Just looking for tips really either those to do with formatting of the script or anything bloody else.
I have an idea but no exact narrative arc to it and I'm experiencing brain death as to what I should do. I'm more prone to making a more visual film than being heavily reliant on dialogue and I'm not really sure how to realise that in script form.
It's all very vague and unformulated.

Sailor Warrior of Love&Justice
(prev. Damn, it's Pacific State again)

14:14 / 21.11.07

Who are you writing it for?

Is the plan to eventually start sending scripts out to production companies, or is it a purely personal thing?

I'm slap bang in the middle of my second Screenwriting module at Uni, and plan to take it on to my dissertation, so I have books I can reccomend, and excerpts/lecturenotes/summaries I can forward on.I can't promise I'll be a lot of help, however.

The best way to get the formatting right is to use a program like Final Draft, which has a almost fully functional demo over here, I love it to bits.

Shrug: Butcher Boy
(prev. Green My Eyes)

16:19 / 21.11.07

Thanks, Pacific.
Well, I'm also doing a scriptwriting module as part of a university course but I'm less than impressed with the lecturer and, thus far, I haven't really taken away any useful information regarding scriptwriting (or anything else) at all. (Which is causing me quite a bit of concern and has really sapped my energy for something originally I was quite excited about). I'll definitely look into the Final Cut Demo, though.

The Llama Cascade
(prev. All the strange,strange Llamas)

21:36 / 21.11.07

There's a free script-format application called Celtx that a friend of mine uses to write stage scripts. As far as I know it has television script writing formats too. Hope it's of some help.

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