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What are you working on?

Post loglines for critique.

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Is there anything I should read or watch before starting to write? Or should I just go at it?

Film Crit Hulk's "Screenwriting 101" is a decent entry-level read.

This guy looks a lot like any other completely replaceable youtube critics. You wouldnt have anything from someone who actually makes movies and doesnt make a living by pandering to superhero fans?

Or does he actually know what hes talking about?

find out the outlining method that works best for you. You can do this just by trial and error. I find index cards let me expand my story easily.

After you work out the easiest way for you to plan your stuff, just start writing it. Having 3 written scripts will help you improve way more than reading a ton of screenwriting books.

if you really struggle with structure Save The Cat can be helpful, although remember to use it to help and not just force your story into Snyder's formula.

He's actually very knowledgable and there are rumours that he is in the industry. Otherwise, scriptnotes is by far the best resource for screenwriting.

>loglines

Pornstar tries to read to children and parents hate her for it.

Who is Sasha Grey for 500?

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Hopefully this is helpful for someone

Pay me faggot.
Your rich ass couldn't buy an imagination at your fancy college, tough shit go write another reboot

damn so I went to a fancy college AND already have a produced reboot under my belt?

and I'm rich?


too bad i'm a faggot too

r8 my story

unfortunately not in the screenwriting format

prologue : >Annie Clark - Auntie Antje's friend, and guitar teacher mommy is paying to give you lessons for your growing musical skills— prefers to teach you in her studio apartment alone. She loves to teach you by being hands on and putting her hands on yours.

gentle femdom annie 1/?

>After a hard day at school, you come crawling to Annie's studio apartment for your guitar lessons. As you enter her sizable yet modest apartment and make your way to her kitchen where she's preparing a salad with her head and curly hair down facing the counter, she perks up and immediately lose her faint smile as she sees how exhausted you are.

>"Ohh, are you okay, sweety? you look absolutely spent" she cooed as she crossed the kitchen island to get to you, wiping her hands on the flare of her almost sheer summer dress. Her warm and emphatic solemn expression changing to a tender affectionate smile as she makes her way to you. "oh, come here, sweety" she says reaching out to your head bringing it gingerly to her chest hugging you close.

>With the thin silk fabric of her dress cooling your skin, she takes your head with her hands to look at you in the face. With her delicate yet somewhat calloused fingers, she brings her thumb to the ridge of your brow brushing it, finally placing both of her hands to your cheeks. With her dainty hands encapsulating your face, she looks at you in the eyes with the stark hazel of hers relinquishing their ground for her broadening pupils.

>She hugs you close to her chest again, placing her right hand in the small of your back and her other hand to the back of your head. "I've got some cookies cooling by the window waiting for you." she whispers in your ear "Everything'll be fine, hun. I'm right here with you" she takes your head back again, kissing you in the forehead this time— stroking your hair as the contact between her lips and your skin part.

I've got 45 pages for this indie flick I'm writing, directing, and possibly acting in.

I'm kinda worried that I might have taken too long to get to the main plotline(Just started the obligatory scene at 45 pages but I imagine the first draft will be anywhere from 80-100 pages). But I guess it's best to just bang out the first draft and see where to go from there.

what do you mean by obligatory scene? If the first 45 pages is set up then I think you'll need to cut a lot of it.

I mean the scene that really kicks off the main plotline, not the obligatory scene, that happened pretty early (10-15)

If you're main plotline doesn't start until 45 pages in that might be a problem. It's difficult to say without knowing the details, but I can't see a storyline starting halfway through a film being the main plotline.

But yeah, finish the script because you never know. Be prepared to cut a lot of it though.

I felt that I needed to do a good job of really setting up the conflict before starting that part, so I'll probably have to do a lot of reorganizing and cutting. On the next draft. Thanks user.

thanks man

format is the least of your worries if you're a screenwriting novice. write the story any way you find comfortable and format it after you're done.

currently working on two pitches. wrote abbreviated bibles for both, character sheets, and currently wrapping up the first screenplays for each. i write screen stuff at night and work on my second novel mornings until early afternoon. as for loglines, nah, i keep those cards close to my chest.

>I've got 45 pages for this indie flick I'm writing, directing, and possibly acting in.
Fuck dude! I'm at the end of that journey.
A few more days of shooting to go.
It's been over one and a half years since I started writing.
Just redraft and redraft. Work on something else, then redraft and redraft.
I eventually got it so the catalyst scene, or "obligatory scene" was on page 4 of 90.

It's actually been fascinating looking at my notes from 12 months ago and seeing how frustrated I was trying to fix certain narrative problems that have now since been rectified.

Wait I think I got the catalyst amd obligatory scenes mixed up. My catalyst is at around pages 5-7, big event is in the 20s, and I'm at the midpoint right now which is page 43.

ah the redraft. what a cunt that is.
my first draft had five main characters. budget constraints soon cut that down to just two with sporadic appearances from one more.

What was it about?

Screenwriter's Bible and Robert McKee's Story