Well, a hundred posts later and not a pro in sight... :lol Anyway, I figured I'd start a thread on scene reconstruction to put in FAQ later for reference. Seemed like a good idea.
I'm in the middle of a rip apart examination of a script on a scene by scene basis. Generally, when I get into this I'll take each scene and go over the following for each:
1. Is there conflict and does it emerge naturally?
2. Who controls the scene... leads it? And if no one... why?
3. Does every word count? Can something be cut?
4. Can any idiot understand it and what it's trying to do?
5. Does it work on subtextual, emotional and visual levels.
6. Is there any On The Nose?
7. Is the dialogue short, sharp and to the point?
8. Does everyone stay in character?
I'm actually going to have to print that list out to refer to so I'm not forgetting something with each scene, but before I do I thought I'd ask this...
When doing a scene by scene analysis of your own scripts...
How do you attack the scene? Is there something that could be added to the above list? What exactly do you guys do to each scene during rewrites that works?
Let's call this a brainstorming session so everyone can put it all together and come up with their own format to rip and tear...
Thanks for the input...
Dan
I'm in the middle of a rip apart examination of a script on a scene by scene basis. Generally, when I get into this I'll take each scene and go over the following for each:
1. Is there conflict and does it emerge naturally?
2. Who controls the scene... leads it? And if no one... why?
3. Does every word count? Can something be cut?
4. Can any idiot understand it and what it's trying to do?
5. Does it work on subtextual, emotional and visual levels.
6. Is there any On The Nose?
7. Is the dialogue short, sharp and to the point?
8. Does everyone stay in character?
I'm actually going to have to print that list out to refer to so I'm not forgetting something with each scene, but before I do I thought I'd ask this...
When doing a scene by scene analysis of your own scripts...
How do you attack the scene? Is there something that could be added to the above list? What exactly do you guys do to each scene during rewrites that works?
Let's call this a brainstorming session so everyone can put it all together and come up with their own format to rip and tear...
Thanks for the input...
Dan
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