A couple years ago I filmed a crime thriller that I never edited or released. (Depression is such a killer) it was a 34 page script but my terrible lack of planning and everyone’s schedule conflicts lead to a really slow production schedule and we chopped the script down to 15 pages to make things more attainable.
I’m doing better this past month and edited the footage... a 15 page script into a 30 minute film. Wow. By those calculations if I did 34 pages it would have been an hour and eight minutes??
I had no idea that I almost made a feature length film with a 34 page script. Or that 45 pages of my writing would be an hour and a half movie. Maybe I really can write a bunch of film scripts if 45 pages is all it takes for my style. I’m gonna have to break that down scene by scene and see what’s taking so much screen time. Or maybe make my writing a lot more verbose and turn every page of writing into two pages of writing.
I’m doing better this past month and edited the footage... a 15 page script into a 30 minute film. Wow. By those calculations if I did 34 pages it would have been an hour and eight minutes??
I had no idea that I almost made a feature length film with a 34 page script. Or that 45 pages of my writing would be an hour and a half movie. Maybe I really can write a bunch of film scripts if 45 pages is all it takes for my style. I’m gonna have to break that down scene by scene and see what’s taking so much screen time. Or maybe make my writing a lot more verbose and turn every page of writing into two pages of writing.
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