Script – Draft One

I just finished the first draft of the script. The outline was very useful and should compress down into a treatment without too much trouble. The script itself is currently thirteen and a half pages. I've got a fair few scenes so I'm thinking more action and description is needed to try and pad it out to my fifteen page target. When I acted out the outline the timings were pretty much spot on. That can be a job for tomorrow. I also need to go through a bunch of notes I made during training today, read through Michael Eaton's class notes again and go through and make sure the whole thing reads well.

I've learned a lot about script formatting while doing this. I'm not confident I've got it entirely right but I don't think it's going to get me marked down much. Scrivener has been an awesome help in getting it looking right as has my script tutor, the examples he sent and the myriad of helpful stuff found online. The other thing I need to do is make sure all the action is written in a consistent voice and that I refer to the characters in a consistent manner (eg. he, Danny, it, stuff, thing etc). Again, those are jobs for tomorrow.

Right now, I'm going to give the script a break and edit Derek some more. I'm sending it off again! You know... Because I like polite rejection letters...