Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 19 2010, 10:04 AM GMTI've got until December to finish a 90 minute screenplay and it doesn't seem enough time!
Loads of time, Wes Craven wrote Scream in 24 hours as I remember. Granted it's just a cut and paste of all his old films but still 
What your screenplay Dolly?
Quote: EllieJP @ March 19 2010, 10:05 AM GMTThree.
Oh no, he only got two too... but different times.
Tuesday and Wednesday?
Quote: Gavin @ March 19 2010, 10:07 AM GMTWhat your screenplay Dolly?
Coming of age comedy drama. With lots of music and sex and drugs. 
Quote: Gavin @ March 19 2010, 10:07 AM GMTLoads of time, Wes Craven wrote Scream in 24 hours as I remember. Granted it's just a cut and paste of all his old films but still
Great film, Scream.
Quote: Tim Walker @ March 19 2010, 10:06 AM GMTNow I've got through writing a properly structured First Act it is coming easier. I think the First Act may be the important thing to get right. Saying that, I have no evidence or experience to back that claim up.
You on 3 Act structure?
Quote: EllieJP @ March 19 2010, 10:05 AM GMTOh no, he only got two too... but different times.
Did either of his actually occur whilst you were having sex? You can't claim for any he had on the way home, I'm afraid, dearest...
*runs away*
Quote: chipolata @ March 19 2010, 10:08 AM GMTGreat film, Scream.
It's good.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 19 2010, 10:08 AM GMTComing of age comedy drama. With lots of music and sex and drugs.
By december? Seven months of research one month to write it... easy!
Quote: Tim Walker @ March 19 2010, 10:06 AM GMTNow I've got through writing a properly structured First Act it is coming easier. I think the First Act may be the important thing to get right. Saying that, I have no evidence or experience to back that claim up.
This a pretty good beat calculator. http://www.rareform.com/screenplay-editor/beats.php based on Blake Snyder's screenplay structure principles.
Quote: Marc P @ March 19 2010, 10:09 AM GMTBy december? Seven months of research one month to write it... easy!
Done years of research. Just can't remember it....
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 19 2010, 10:08 AM GMTComing of age comedy drama. With lots of music and sex and drugs.
Ahhh cool, any trippy sequences? I wrote one for a book where a guy is a bit messed up and see's his friend dressed as Aquaman trying to catch a giant moth with a harpoon.
Quote: Gavin @ March 19 2010, 10:08 AM GMTYou on 3 Act structure?
From the films I've watched over the years, even the more unconventional ones still adhere in some way to a 3 Act Structure, it seems. (At least the good ones do.) Saying that, it's not foremost in my mind when writing, but structure is ultimately important. Probably. 
Quote: Gavin @ March 19 2010, 10:11 AM GMTAhhh cool, any trippy sequences? I wrote one for a book where a guy is a bit messed up and see's his friend dressed as Aquaman trying to catch a giant moth with a harpoon.
No, it's pretty much third person POV.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 19 2010, 10:11 AM GMTThis a pretty good beat calculator. http://www.rareform.com/screenplay-editor/beats.php based on Blake Snyder's screenplay structure principles.
Oooo That's cool as!!
I have been looking at some mail articles online - they come up on yahoo and it seems recently they seem to have a thing against Labour. I wonder why that is.
Quote: Gavin @ March 19 2010, 10:12 AM GMTOooo That's cool as!!
I've tried using on a 10 minute short and it's kinda wierd, but works.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 19 2010, 10:11 AM GMTThis a pretty good beat calculator. http://www.rareform.com/screenplay-editor/beats.php based on Blake Snyder's screenplay structure principles.
Seems about right, but I would the beats there are most important in the First Act and the end of the Second. (With this level of insight I really should be producing my own 'How To Write A Screenplay' book to add to the pile.)
