Where are all the good scripts dead?? In the heart or in the head??

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Steel_Linx Member	posted 10-22-2000 08:45 PM I'm just curios, guys and gals. Out of all the stuff you've read, thus far. What was it lacking? Was it emotion or structure and content. Thoughts? IP: Logged
Jim Anthony Member	posted 10-22-2000 10:41 PM Steel, My three scripts I was forced to read would never make past the mailroom. In the real world of studio readers, they judge a script in the first three pages. I'll put together a post on getting your foot in the studio door. It won't be pretty, but it will be real. IP: Logged
Max_Zook Member	posted 10-23-2000 04:40 PM quote: Originally posted by Steel_Linx: Out of all the stuff you've read, thus far. What was it lacking? Was it emotion or structure and content. A bit of everything. Most of what I've read feels very "first-drafty", as if people haven't put much thought into it (because, frankly, they haven't). Characters are described in the prose rather than developed by their actions. Dialogue is "on-the-nose", wordy and excessively literal. The most common structural problem I've seen (in two otherwise well-written scripts) is that the writers haven't made up their minds who their protagonist is. The point of view flops back and forth between characters. Every script I've read could have been improved by making the writers put up a big sign: SHOW ME, DON'T TELL ME. IP: Logged

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