Read this webpage at least twice before you post your screenwriting to be evaluated:
http://www.scriptwritersnetwork.org/swn/index.php?page=feature-script-format
It may save countless tears, wasted energy, and inane arguments about trivialities.
There is of course room to weave this way or that. There is the possibility of reinventing the wheel, I suppose. But, without understanding why you're reinventing the screenplay how could you hope to succeed?
The truth is there's a mountain of dreck that most sane people would prefer to avoid. There is so much dreck, so much banal copycat simplistic bullshit floating around, that people who can tell the difference are not all that likely to trust that you're the new prodigy, unless you prove it on page one. And two, and right through to the end without one single miscue. Without missing a beat. Without impressing them that they didn't think of those fantastic ideas first.
That's the way it is. There's really no compelling reason to read amateur short screenplays (or features for that matter) off the internet, unless one is a masochist.
I heard Darren Aronofsky in an interview recently. He was back at film school talking to the students. He said, "The films you're making now... they're not good."
PS.
Then read every one of these columns (twice) before you bother with the next opus.
http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/welcome.html
And, hell, you might as well go here 5 days a week, too:
http://www.scriptsecrets.net
http://www.scriptwritersnetwork.org/swn/index.php?page=feature-script-format
It may save countless tears, wasted energy, and inane arguments about trivialities.
There is of course room to weave this way or that. There is the possibility of reinventing the wheel, I suppose. But, without understanding why you're reinventing the screenplay how could you hope to succeed?
The truth is there's a mountain of dreck that most sane people would prefer to avoid. There is so much dreck, so much banal copycat simplistic bullshit floating around, that people who can tell the difference are not all that likely to trust that you're the new prodigy, unless you prove it on page one. And two, and right through to the end without one single miscue. Without missing a beat. Without impressing them that they didn't think of those fantastic ideas first.
That's the way it is. There's really no compelling reason to read amateur short screenplays (or features for that matter) off the internet, unless one is a masochist.
I heard Darren Aronofsky in an interview recently. He was back at film school talking to the students. He said, "The films you're making now... they're not good."
PS.
Then read every one of these columns (twice) before you bother with the next opus.
http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/welcome.html
And, hell, you might as well go here 5 days a week, too:
http://www.scriptsecrets.net