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Michel Gordon
Solicited screenplay

What is solicited screenplay ? Thanks in advance

Dylan McKenzie
Slug line help

I seem to post a lot to this lounge, but I suppose that's because I'm new here and I find the advice incredibly helpful! Anyway, I'm currently writing a scene for a television script in which my protagonist pulls into a motel car park (parking lot) to see his estranged daughter standing there. The s...

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William Martell

What Pierre said: Get rid of the CUT TO: and leave the rest as it is. (I have no idea why people dislike sluglines)

Vanessa Bailey

No offense taken! Worrying about that punctuation now, though... ;) scans it again \O/

Michel Gordon

Girl reach for car door and enters the mustang :)

David Levy

@RB: I agree with RB being right about Dan saying Vanessa is right. I'm so glad these children were here today to hear that speech!

Richard "RB" Botto

Gabby Johnson...

Michel Gordon
My name is Dragoslav

Hello friends, I have a wish to become screenwriter for films. I think that modern films are top art (magic :) because they use all elements of art, writing, visual and audio.

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Welcome Dragoslav

Michel Gordon
Beginning screenplays

Hi friends, Can someone recommend me book or link to study basics of Screenwriting for films. Thanks in advance.

Michelle L. De La Garza

I recommend Save The Cat. In a scriptwriting class (introduction) I took, we studied the Snyder Beat Sheet closely. It did help to use it as a blueprint (with flexibility).

Margaret Roarty

Dramatic Story Structure: A Primer for Screenwriters by Edward J. Fink. Very informative, easy to understand, and to the point.

Zlatan Mustafica

I recommend you carefully read a few scripts of movies you like to start with. Then follow the advice by all these wonderful people above :) It will make it easier for you to understand what all these...

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Mark Proulx

I highly recommend "Writing YOUR story for the BIG Screen" by Shawn Fornari. I studied under him at the Burt Reynolds Institute of Film and Theater in Jupiter, FL for a couple of years and I can hones...

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Phillip E. Hardy, "The Real Deal"

A great book to cover all the basics of formatting is "The Hollywood Standard" by Christopher Riley.

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