I hear this a fair bit and imagine it can only be guidelines in a rough idea.
What it is is the fact that people will say inciting incident should happen on page 10, act 2 should start page 25 and act three should start page 70.
Now, I know these are rough guidelines so the structure and pacing is correct so does that mean if your script is 120 pages long then you just work out the maths of where each act start should appear on what page.
I know this isn't offering great clarity in my question but maybe a simpler way would be to say if act 2 starts at page 25 in a 90 min script then it should start about page 35 in a 120 page script?
Thanks
What it is is the fact that people will say inciting incident should happen on page 10, act 2 should start page 25 and act three should start page 70.
Now, I know these are rough guidelines so the structure and pacing is correct so does that mean if your script is 120 pages long then you just work out the maths of where each act start should appear on what page.
I know this isn't offering great clarity in my question but maybe a simpler way would be to say if act 2 starts at page 25 in a 90 min script then it should start about page 35 in a 120 page script?
Thanks
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