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    computer-related Flat or curved monitor for screenwriting?

    Hello! What monitor is better for screenwriting, many hours. Flat or curved monitor and what size?
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    directing How to make a 3 minutes short film?

    Hello, I have a 3 pages screenplay and i would like to make it a movie. I've never made any movie. Can I pay a small production company to borrow their camera and direct it? Or where can I send it so they will make it a good movie not an armature one?
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    story Rewrite a screenplay

    Hello, I've written a script 180 pages and now I have to cut it to about 110. Do you have any suggestions on what to cut. What plan to follow to spot the unnecessary? What is considered as unnecessary in a screenplay? Also any suggestions on the strategy to follow for rewrite?
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    music Background music

    Do you know what is the music in the background at 1:30:
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    software-related Final Draft: courier new vs courier final draft font

    Hello. I want to write in a non English language in final draft but I can use only the courier new font which is more spaced than the standard courier final draft which supports only English characters. So with courier final draft 54 lines fit in one page but with courier new only 43 lines in...
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    character All my characters talk like me.

    Hello, I have a problem. All my characters talk with the same voice. Are there any books to read or any way to understand how to make them talk with their voice? I find it difficult!
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    Screenplay analysis

    I would like to know if there is anyone who knows what is considered as the best screenplay analysis company in the world. Like, for example, the best screenplay contest is Nicholl screenplay contest. If there is no such thing as the best screenplay analysis company in the world, then suggest...
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    Advise to the director

    I would like to ask if there is a way to write that you don't want the camera to show something. I know it is director's job and I know they will get it but I ask in case there is any such advise. Like sometimes you write CU when it is very important for the story, is there the opposite like...
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    Switch between flashback and present

    If we have f.e. a scene where someone is hitting punches on the wall and with every punch the hero, who is watching him, remembers something, how would we right that scene?
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    Grand Prize Winner in Hollywood's Short Screenplay contest. Now what?

    My short script "The Witch" is the Grand Prize Winner in Hollywood's Short Screenplay contest in 2016. https://www.hollywoodscreenplaycontest.com/contest/past-winners/2016-winners It is my first script. Has this contest any real value? The story is very nice, as I've been said, but the script...
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    Same character + decades later = different actor

    When a character appears f.e. 50 years later, and therefore a different actor will play him, should we capitalize his name again and write his new age again?
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    0% love in a screenplay!

    What is your opinion on a screenplay about a big war, that has 0% love elements, not a single hint about love in the whole screenplay? Is there any chance to sell such a script? Does it have to be a perfect masterpiece to counterbalance the complete lack of love elements? By love I mean sexual...
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    interior, but seen from outside.

    If there is a scene which happens in a store, but we see it from outside, the scene is INT. or EXT.? In the scene we describe what happens inside the store but the hero is outside and watches inside.
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    Advanced intercut

    Hello, I have an intercut of 2 places, then after some lines a third place comes and now the intercut continues with all the 3 places. How I write it? example: John and Tom are talking to the phone. INTERCUT BETWEEN: JOHN AND TOM JOHN ...... TOM ...... Mark gets in to the phone line and now...
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    Unknown music

    Does anyone know the name of the soundtrack at 2:15 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAi0hj2CFac
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    Re-register any newer draft?

    Hello, I have registered a script in 2015 at copyright.gov. Untill now I made many changes in the script. Should I register it again? This sounds to me nonsense, but what is the law?
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    Open Stadium INT or EXT?

    How do I write the slugline when I'm inside an open stadium? INT or EXT? In the first scene we are outside of the stadium and in the second scene we are inside. I wrote: EXT. OUTSIDE STADIUM - DAY . . . EXT. INSIDE STADIUM - DAY . . . Is it right?
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    500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader

    Do you know where we can buy the book: 500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader by Jennifer Lerch in PDF format? I don't want a paperback because I want to double click on the words I don't know to translate them.
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    Score 61 at PAGE awards for my first script

    Have you ever sent a script for coverage? What was your score? I sent my first screenplay for coverage at PAGE Awards and the score was 61. ______________________________________ The statistics for PAGE are these: Approximately 25% of all entries score below 40 Approximately 50% of all entries...
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    Spec Scripts

    Does anyone know any web page where we can find spec screenplays only? Most web pages have specs and shooting scripts mixed!
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