Sunday, September 12, 2010

Technical difficulties over!

So for the last few days Blogspot was pretty much denying me the ability to post updates. It's been a bit slow going though, as this is probably one of the toughest bits of writing a script.

The first script rewrite seems to be the one that requires the most work. Reading through your script you start to notice a bunch of things you may say "Well, that could be a bit better" or the dreaded "This is AWFUL!" to. Apparently this is a normal behaviour but I'll be damned if it isn't just a bit disheartening at times.

Most of the issues I'm having are when I notice that the characters don't seem to have their own voice. For a better explanation, in a few scenes, two of the protagonists (Curtis and Wendy) are having a conversation. During this conversation, if I was to take away the names on the script, you would NOT be able to tell who is who. Well, thankfully I remembered that there was a section in Your Screenplay Sucks! about just this and it includes a tip that's been helping me a great deal.

What the book suggests is that you A-B your dialogue. This basically means that first you get into the head of Character A and start to write their dialogue for the scene. After that, do the same with Character B. If you know what the scene is accomplishing and where it has to go, this can actually be notoriously easy. It's also been highly effective. For me, at least.

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