Hello, scriveners of sequels. I’m taking a short break from substack (hopefully to make progress on my own sequel), so as promised last week, here’s the script for a 10-minute film that I wrote. It’s about a Catholic priest with a secret, though when you read the script, you will understand the secret much more quickly than a film audience would do.
Rather than post the text here on subscript, I’ve published it as a PDF on my website. Substack doesn’t have much flexibility in formatting, and I thought it might be interesting to show it as a fully formatted script. For those who haven’t seen a screenplay before, there are various formatting conventions to follow (I used the Scrivener software which knows how to do this) and the result of doing so is that the amount of dialogue or camera directions on a page ends up at approximately one minute’s worth of screen time, so a two hour film would have around 120 pages, and my script is 10 pages for 10 minutes. We did table-reads with our classmates reading each other’s scripts, and it does work. It’s also very interesting, as I wrote about in part 21, to hear your words spoken by other people, freeing you up to concentrate on how it sounds and how to improve it. I won’t claim that there isn’t still a lot to be improved upon in this screenplay; I worked on it for a few weeks before turning it in, and hadn’t looked at it again until now.
Next week, in another robo-post, I’ll talk about what I thought about this screenplay and what I was trying to do in it.
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