söndag 17 april 2011

Shortening my screenplay.

So I actually managed to turn the book into a somewhat resonable script.. according to myself. The only problem right now is that a first script from a newbie screenwriter should not be over two hours long or they won't be played as much at move theatres, and given that one page is approximately one minute of film i now have almost three hours of script or 172 pages.

To cut this down I'm planning on going over the script scene by scene and see what actually happens in them so I can delete unnessary scenes. Scenes that evolve the character, push the story forward or have any other wanted quality should be kept but the rest should be thrown out like yesterdays trash.

Alternately I could actually move things from some scenes to other just to remove them if they don't make sense without that one part.