I post pages on social media to pitch my scripts, but I also use it as one last check after I finish rewriting my scripts. I don’t know what it is about posting script pages on social media, but I spot things in scenes that I didn’t notice before when I post the pages, like action lines or words that need to be changed. Does this happen to anyone else?
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I never did that @Maurice Vaughan! Do you get feedback from your followers or is more an exercise for you?
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Hi, Sandra Isabel Correia. Sometimes my followers give me feedback on the pages, but I mainly post the pages to check things one last time after rewriting my scripts and to pitch my scripts.
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Ah! It’s an exercise you do posting on your social media and at the same time it’s good for your followers! I like that :))
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Fun topic. It's the same for me when I read through the pdf file. Premiere eyes. Like reading together with an audience.
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It's like that when I read through the pdf file, Wal Friman. Yeah, you're right. It's like reading together with an audience. I also like to copy and paste the entire script into Microsoft Word, change the font and text size, then export the file as a pdf and check it for typos. That works better for me than reading the script in Final Draft to catch typos.
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I have noticed myself that some errors one doesn't find easily. One can read the script 9 times without finding what is wrong. But the 10th time one reads, one notices what is wrong. And I am a big friend of the idea to make printout on paper, because that makes it far easier to find errors than on the computer monitor.
I used to print scripts and make notes on them with different color pens, like red for things that need to be changed, Göran Johansson. I might start printing scripts again.
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What helps me is having the PC read it back to me. I use a Text-to-speech reader to listen to how it sounds. I can find errors much faster when I hear that it doesn't sound right.
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That helps me too, Anthony Moore. I use the read aloud features in Microsoft Word and Final Draft. I used to read my scripts backwards to check for typos, but that takes a lot of time.
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Enlightening conversation guys I learned lots!