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My dream project first screenplay draft!

Very rough drafty. What do you think?

Fade In:Roswell, Fort Aeschylus, Meeting Room.

Cut To-REEVES, seated on a black leather chair, flipping through a folder.

Cut and Focus on-The photos and documents he is flipping through-images from a gun camera showing it firing on a small ship with it’s gun. Then a strange cylinder object, old but powerful in appearance.

Pan-Over the table that he seats, showing the eagle emblazoned on the table and the other three men seated on three opposite corners-His counterpart Faluke seated across from him.

REEVES:
Well, we won’t get anything done looking through folders will we?

FALUKE:
For once, we agree.

STAR LORD VAN DYKE:
Reeves, where is your courier?

REEVES:
He should be on his way
Cut to-Drake sleeping on a couch, drink in hand as he lays about. A droid, it’s black body propelled by a single wheel.

SC-0055:
Mister Drake, your appointment is about-

DRAKE:
Two hours.

SC-0055:
Yes, Mister Drake.
A doorbell rings, SC-0055 goes to the door.


SC-0055:
Mister DRAKE , Miss VICTORIA is at the door.

Camera cuts to DRAKE adjusting his suit, looking at himself in the mirror, camera stays on enough for some of DRAKE’S scars (small but noticeable) to be apparent. He goes to open the door, VICTORIA pushes past him and begins searching around his apartment. DRAKE just stares at her, still holding the door

DRAKE:
Somethin wrong Vic?

VICTORIA ignores him, now rummaging through DRAKE’s stuff. DRAKE lets go of the door, letting it close before coughing. VICTORIA shots up straight, turns and draws a pistol aimed at DRAKE. He begins to reach for his own, but is shot in the shoulder. VICTORIA moves towards him, pistol now aimed at his head, and her once human face changing into something more alien….a Ragon female. She begins to depress the trigger, and the screen goes black. DRAKE lays down in a black void, his shoulder wound gone.

JROVA
Rise, my child.

DRAKE stumbles up, a astral figure of pure energy floating ahead of him. The figure takes a human form, through still ambiguous in gender, race and any other features.

DRAKE
Who...who are you?

JROVA
I am the wind, I am the earth, I am you, I am everything.
DRAKE looks confused.

JROVA
You are Drake, whose mind is held together by fragile wood and future remains uncertain.

JROVA moves closer, seemingly floating


JROVA
And you shall live.

DRAKE awakes, his apartment burning and his wound healed. A charred corpse lays wear VICTORIA once stood, and SC-0055 lies destroyed next to the door.
 
What am I supposed to think? You have 2 pages of set up and no pay-off. I think i wasted my time reading it.

I think you should learn what a screen play is supposed to look like. For example locations should be specified with INT or EXT
 
Yeah, as always (practically my calling card) a time limit (had 10 minutes to write this before I had to do something) made me rush the format a little bit and end before I got to my current spot in story.
 
Yeah, as always (practically my calling card) a time limit (had 10 minutes to write this before I had to do something) made me rush the format a little bit and end before I got to my current spot in story.

So, your dream project is only worth 10 minutes of your time?
You couldn't wait to post it right away, eventhough it is incomplete?
Did you have a deadline screaming at you that you had to post it on IT today?
What do you hope to achieve this way?




After answering these questions, you can maybe re-evaluate your MO to a more fruitfull one :P
One that includes formatting it in a clearer way (it doesn't have to completely perfect, but it has to make sense and look like a presentable draft) and presenting content you really thought about and looked over before posting.
Now you just posted some 'incomplete notes' you came up with.

Keep on writing. And rewriting.
Format it clearly.
And when you've got something that is leading somewhere, post it and you might get proper feedback.
 
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I would of preferred to have more time (ala-All day), but had to deal with the cards I've been given.

I through this would be enough for a short critique, but guess I was wrong.

Sorry.
 
The problem is you have three different stories that you have intertwined in your head and none is being developed. There is the "war room" plot you open with, then the "Victoria-Drake" romance, ending abruptly with the "alien salvation". Each of these needs further elaboration and development to create a cohesive story.

Why did you start in the war room? There is no description of Faluke or the Star Lord. How would someone know about these people from the quick glimpse you give? The battle scene photos have no context. Does this take place in the past, present or future? Is it an Earth based or alien based homeworld? It's not evident that Drake is the courier. His droid makes that seem highly unlikely. Then she enters and goes ballistic, literally.

All in all, it's very chaotic. At the end, Drake isn't the only one confused. Is Jrova a spirit, angel, alien? This isn't really a script but a quickly jotted down dream sequence. While dreams can inspire movies, the awake mind needs to organize and develop them.
 
You only set up a beginning.
Looks like an interesting start as it raises a few questions, but what more can we say?
Most context is still missing.

And you got a short critique :P
(Just not what you expected ;) )

What I'm saying is: even if you have only 10 minutes a day, it doesn't mean you have to post it right away after those 10 minutes. Give yourself some time to look over it, write more and present it properly.

Get out of the 'panic mode' of rushing. You do that often:
'I wrote this, but at the end I was rushed.'
And then next day you have time to explain some things.
It's like a painter saying: "I started on my masterpiece. What do you think?"
"It's a bit unclear."
"Yeah, I just had a few minutes for a rough sketch."

Turn that aroud:
write.
As rushed as you want to be till you're out of time.
Don't post it yet.
Continue the next day to polish it and format it a bit clearer.
 
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