Uh Oh …. EXT. STREET SEQUENCE - NIGHT The cab pulls away from the curb, heads down the street... CAR #1 - at the cross street, turns left behind the cab as it passes through the next intersection... THE CAB - turns right. CAR #1 heads on, straight...
I'm the movie watcher who often has no idea what's happening, but loves the action. I'll be re-reading from the start once we arrive at the final scene. And I'm going to make post-its for every character (like I was taught to when reading Dickens in high school), annotated to indicate ring/no ring.
Scripts are not usually broken up into "episodes." I'm doing it here because a) Substack wouldn't have the space to publish the whole thing at once, and b) an extended something not directly associated with the bullshit and baloney every day seemed like a nice escape.
Screenplays are broken up into three acts, which a good writer once described thus: "In act one, put your hero in a tree; in act two, throw rocks at him; in act three, bring him out of the tree." There are more involved discussions of structure but that gets to the essence.
As to how many are left, I have been breaking it up by major scene/sequence. There are five or six left. I forget. :-)
jeez, Karen...I was all set to tell a story about the stumbling drunk guy I've had in my apartment for two days. actually, stumbling would have been good. this guy's been TALKING. he loves DeSantis...
Me too. And I have to admit I didn’t even know that printers had fallen out of favor. I suppose I’m in denial. Now that I think about it I’m the only one with a hard copy and taking notes with pen and paper in a meeting. Everyone else has their laptop.
but isn't there also a five-act structure thing as well? I actually think that (at least in my fairly limited understanding) the five-act thing might be just a slightly more detailed version of the three-act thing. I'm not sure which source features what structural breakdown. I suppose I'm asking.
It's a division of the second act to "the twist on page 40," "the twist on page 65" and "the twist on page 80" (predicated on a 120-page script where the end of Act One is page 30 and the end of Act Two is Page 90).
I'm the movie watcher who often has no idea what's happening, but loves the action. I'll be re-reading from the start once we arrive at the final scene. And I'm going to make post-its for every character (like I was taught to when reading Dickens in high school), annotated to indicate ring/no ring.
And thanks for killing off some bad guys.
Gotta ask. How many episodes are there? Ok. I'll know when you are done. Never read a script before. Don't answer. Keep writing.
Scripts are not usually broken up into "episodes." I'm doing it here because a) Substack wouldn't have the space to publish the whole thing at once, and b) an extended something not directly associated with the bullshit and baloney every day seemed like a nice escape.
Screenplays are broken up into three acts, which a good writer once described thus: "In act one, put your hero in a tree; in act two, throw rocks at him; in act three, bring him out of the tree." There are more involved discussions of structure but that gets to the essence.
As to how many are left, I have been breaking it up by major scene/sequence. There are five or six left. I forget. :-)
We are, however, at the end of Act Two.
Thanks TC. This is great! I do appreciate the escape from the daily bullshit. And I am going to be very careful around stumbling drunk guys.
I Laughed Out Loud.
jeez, Karen...I was all set to tell a story about the stumbling drunk guy I've had in my apartment for two days. actually, stumbling would have been good. this guy's been TALKING. he loves DeSantis...
don't ask.
Oh no! That is much worse. I’d rather have a stumbling drunk than a de Santis fan
yeah, well I got BOTH at the same time. fortunately, he only VISITS.
Oh dear! Nothing worse than a stumbling drunk de satan lover. Hope it’s a short visit David.
suggestion: the best idea for me is to print them all out in sequence when it's over.
of course, I'm the only one I know who still has a printer...it's this old-fashioned dependence on hard copies...
So old school I probably have a box of continuous form printing paper. White, not the two-toned green.
I still have a printer. I would be lost without it.
I'd go crazy. I don't understand why printers fell out of favor.
but there's a lot about the Digital Domain I don't think I'll ever get, which is fine because there's plenty I don't wanna get. which is also fine.
Me too. And I have to admit I didn’t even know that printers had fallen out of favor. I suppose I’m in denial. Now that I think about it I’m the only one with a hard copy and taking notes with pen and paper in a meeting. Everyone else has their laptop.
Me, three! I can’t live without my printer. And I’ll probably wait and print out the screenplay all at once.
but isn't there also a five-act structure thing as well? I actually think that (at least in my fairly limited understanding) the five-act thing might be just a slightly more detailed version of the three-act thing. I'm not sure which source features what structural breakdown. I suppose I'm asking.
It's a division of the second act to "the twist on page 40," "the twist on page 65" and "the twist on page 80" (predicated on a 120-page script where the end of Act One is page 30 and the end of Act Two is Page 90).
gotcha. that makes sense.
Ah. Thanks. Tree to the right, exit left. Enjoying the escape.
Enjoying this - pure pleasure!
Who are these ring people? There are a lot of them.
Preflight checklist is complete. Moving toward takeoff.