I'm currently writing my first draft of my first full length screenplay. I'm not sure if I'm talking too long to set up the plot or if the script is just too long in general. It's currently 36 pages and I'm half way through the first act.
Could someone please read what I've written so far?
Nothing really big has happened yet (my idea of big in movies is explosions and guns so...) apart from stuff like an intro that sets up the script like a flashback (that a girl is confessing to her crimes in a prison), people warning the main character to beware of another (because she acts like she's "possessed") and two characters talking to each other and bitching about other characters as well as hinting at the criminal activities that are going to happen in a few pages (a brief mention or hint of gang rivalry).
I mean, I've read the script for 'Welcome to the Riley's' and there didn't seem to be an inciting incident in that.
It's a drama (I suppose. Don't think it can fit into any other genre)... Just worried if it's talking too long to set up or if I should just write it and then mention it when I get it properly critiqued by a beta reader, which might be the best thing to do.
I read online that if nothing has really happened in the first 25 pages then the agents and exec's will throw it away.
Could someone please read what I've written so far?
Nothing really big has happened yet (my idea of big in movies is explosions and guns so...) apart from stuff like an intro that sets up the script like a flashback (that a girl is confessing to her crimes in a prison), people warning the main character to beware of another (because she acts like she's "possessed") and two characters talking to each other and bitching about other characters as well as hinting at the criminal activities that are going to happen in a few pages (a brief mention or hint of gang rivalry).
I mean, I've read the script for 'Welcome to the Riley's' and there didn't seem to be an inciting incident in that.
It's a drama (I suppose. Don't think it can fit into any other genre)... Just worried if it's talking too long to set up or if I should just write it and then mention it when I get it properly critiqued by a beta reader, which might be the best thing to do.
I read online that if nothing has really happened in the first 25 pages then the agents and exec's will throw it away.
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