![]() Less is more, of course, but you still have to have a story. You can always put it back in if someone wants you to turn your short into a feature. Take a closer look at your dialogue, read it out loud, is any of it too on the nose, is it indicative of your characters? If the dialogue is weighing the story down, especially with a short script, then you may not need it. What visuals are coming through the strongest? Are these scenes showing the story you want to tell? Read them out loud and ask a few people to listen or they can read them out loud while you listen. Take out all of the dialogue and look at your chosen scenes. ![]() Make it shorter, make it longer and then make it even shorter than before.Įxperiment with it – change the scenes around. How can I write a ten-page script and have it make sense? Start with a simple story line, a few characters establish what dialogue and what specific visuals need to be in your script for it to make sense. Some may find the short format overwhelming at first. But when you do incorporate them, it shows the world you understand story structure at its heart, and that you are writing to engage and entertain. A feature allows you 90-115 pages to build your conflict, characters, climax and resolution but a short script only gives you, well, a short time to do all that. The beloved three-act structure, even in a five-minute film, is a vital component to your script. Ideally, all the elements of a feature need to be present in a short. Yet keep in mind, the short script format is just as challenging, maybe even a little more so, than a feature. Writing a short script is a fantastic introduction to screenwriting and a great way to get your name out there. But still, we writers smile through the pain and laugh through the…the.pain.Īren’t we fortunate that the same wall of fire we pass through for our feature scripts can be applied to our short scripts? A short script should be easier, right? Because it’s shorter, right? (I still can’t answer either of these.) Yes, the glory and agony of screen writing.
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