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    Capitalization in Screenplays

    This is what I understand is TECHNICALLY supposed to be the situation on capitals... 1. SLUGLINES AND CAMERA SHOTS (if there are any) 2. Characters when they first appear with speaking lines OR are critical (eg the guy in the gun store in DAWN OF THE DEAD is a critical character yet never...
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    Need Some Feedback

    "We fade in" - There is no WE in stage direction. Just skip the WE. No slugline. Blank lines after character. Dialogue too wide. Action and description too narrow. slamming his arms on the table is NOT a style of speech so should NOT be in parentheticals. "It's you fault I'm stuck her" -...
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    Screenplay feedback

    BEWARE! I found one company online (actually it is a one man outfit) - he offers feedback. I then found another advert with the same number offering to sell "new and original ideas" to movie companies. I found one script that someone had send it to be reviewed by him, then found the same idea...
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    Feedback on comedy script

    Sounds like a lame bunch of unfunny slapstick with a bad taste and disturbing tragedy at the end, needlessly forced in the audience's face. Recommendation - Don't give up the day job.
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    critique anyone want to critique the first act of my scifi thriller?

    Hi! because of my email, it often ends up in the Spam. Please confirm receipt of WALL STREET STAG Many thanks
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    Re-Using a Popular Film Name

    Use some imagination - call it East Side Story or South Side Saga
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    critique anyone want to critique the first act of my scifi thriller?

    Actually, BOTH come ABOVE first. When you are an outsider, not only do you have to match existing writers toe-to-toe, but you need to be BETTER than them and frankly, utterly faultless AND have a screenplay that is Oscar worthy, just to get made. Some jerk-off like Adam Sandler has the clout...
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    1st Draft - Any and all feedback is welcome… even the crazy stuff.

    One dimensional characters saying tedious lines concerning subjects we dont care about. Cliche plot and subplot development where there is any. Hideous monologues makes much of it, particularly the mid to ending utterly unreadible. In fact, breaking up the monologues alone would be a vast...
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    critique anyone want to critique the first act of my scifi thriller?

    A bunch of stereotype cliches, riding around being shot at by the authorities who are uncaring and stupid DOES NOT MAKE A MOVIE. We dont care anything about them and frankly wish that they all did die. This feels like nails being dragged down a backboard by page 65. UTTERLY UNIMAGINATIVE...
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    critique anyone want to critique the first act of my scifi thriller?

    Second tranche... STRAIGHT FROM THE HARPER COLLINS DICTIONARY OF TRADITIONAL CLICHE LINES.............. Page 31- Dad, do you think this has something to do with... Page 31 - We need to get off the road. Page 31 Zach, Accidents happen. Page 32 Zach, we re going to be fine. Page 32 - I won t...
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    critique anyone want to critique the first act of my scifi thriller?

    Hi, I have borrowed my girlfriends computer (which does not have a functioning question mark key!) so hereès my brutal review... Page 1 - Why famous - that particular vehicle famous - looks like waste of white space Without an insert, how does the audience know that there was no tip...
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    critique anyone want to critique the first act of my scifi thriller?

    well, everything on http://www.docdroid.net works just dandy! No problem reading that.
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    story Storypros? Anyone any experience of entering their contest?

    Storypros? Anyone any experience of entering their contest?
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    Has anyone any experience of these film festivals?

    - Twisted Alley? - Women's Independent FIlm Festival? - San Francisco? What was your experience like?
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    Does Anyone Know Anything About The Westfield Awards?

    Does anyone know anything about the Westfield Awards? Has anyone ever entered?
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    critique Please critique my horror script

    1. First time a character is introduced, he should be in capitals. Tom is not. Non-existent description too. Are we talking about a 2 year old or a 92 year old? 2. The opening paragraphs are LUDICROUS MONOLITHS. These contain various different actions. It slows it down all as one. These...
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    critique anyone want to critique the first act of my scifi thriller?

    MAC Quicksilver OS 10.4 Tiger.
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    critique Please Critique My Comedy Script

    1. Description does NOT go in capitals. 2. Guy is slang. 3. Makes love? Is this a prono? 4. TELEPHONE not PHONE 5. Why the blank line after No compalints...? 6. i'm should be I'm 7. HUGE MONOLOGUES - WOO! LOUSY! 8. (beat) is a paentheitcal that goes ion a line of its own 9. CUTTING HIM...
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    synopsis Need feedback to my short film idea (detailed synopsis)

    Ask any industry professional. It is the SIMPLE ideas that make the dough. Your logline reads like the instruction booklet to the space shuttle.
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    critique Please critique my opening pages

    Tell you what... Having suffered near death in at least one of thsoe, as well and all the accumulated giref... suppose I agree to that with you putting my name as a co-writer and I'll even supply more such stories and redraft and write part of it? (I can email you a pdf of my current US...
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