Rule 1 of script-writing.
No one will read what you write. Except the person who brings it to life as animation or a comic book. A script is not prose or fiction. It is a guide or a manual to be followed by others who are working with you.
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Rule 2 of script-writing.
Do not fall in love with the words you are writing down. Before all is said and done, it will undergo the scrutiny of your artist, your editor, your client, and a bunch of other people you would not have considered important. Prepare to be flexible and adapt. Stand up for what you want to stand up for by all means, but by the time your script finds life, it will not resemble your first draft in any way.
Do not fall in love with the words you are writing down. Before all is said and done, it will undergo the scrutiny of your artist, your editor, your client, and a bunch of other people you would not have considered important. Prepare to be flexible and adapt. Stand up for what you want to stand up for by all means, but by the time your script finds life, it will not resemble your first draft in any way.
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Rule 3 of script-writing.
Nobody cares what your character is thinking. What he is thinking has to show through something he does. A script/screenplay is not a novel. Nobody is going to read it to find out that which does not show. Animation is action (this goes for comic books as well, although to a lesser extent). Things have to show. Movement has to happen. Ditch the long monologues and the mammoth thought bubbles.
Nobody cares what your character is thinking. What he is thinking has to show through something he does. A script/screenplay is not a novel. Nobody is going to read it to find out that which does not show. Animation is action (this goes for comic books as well, although to a lesser extent). Things have to show. Movement has to happen. Ditch the long monologues and the mammoth thought bubbles.
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Rule 4 of script-writing.
Do not tell your director what music he should play in the background.
Moving pictures are his thing, not yours. Your thing is words on paper.
Make the mistake of confusing the two and you make everyone's lives
difficult.
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