I reckon on about 120 words a minute for a monologue. So it's about just over half the length of a normal TV script for half an hour.
Dialogue Query Page 3
Quote: Marc P @ January 4 2010, 4:40 PM GMTI reckon on about 120 words a minute for a monologue. So it's about just over half the length of a normal TV script for half an hour.
So is mine half-hour then? Or less.
Quote: James Cotter @ January 4 2010, 4:43 PM GMTSo is mine half-hour then? Or less.
Well a BBC TV half hour is about 6,500
So by my calculation your monolgue is about an hour and a quarter or so long.
Quote: Marc P @ January 4 2010, 4:52 PM GMTWell a BBC TV half hour is about 6,500
So by my calculation your monolgue is about an hour and a quarter or so long.
Blimey! Really? I have written a lot of scene description and my dialogue is rather long.
By my calculations my script is about 35 minutes long, I know this because all of the dialogue was originally recorded on Dictaphone and I have added that all up and it came to it about 35 minutes.
Well it's better to have too much then not enough. I can cut bits if need be.
A monologue is normally just the dialogue if you see what I mean, so you should be okay.
Quote: Marc P @ January 4 2010, 5:06 PM GMTA monologue is normally just the dialogue if you see what I mean, so you should be okay.
Ok thanks.