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Vol.4. NO.12 ....................................................Pages 12and 13 Screen Writing Tips From Larry Formatting.
Just the word makes you shudder. But if you think it has
that effect on you, you ought to see – or maybe you
shouldn’t – what effect it has on the Hollywood
Reader. There are do’s and don’ts in any craft,
and screenwriting is no different. I’m going to
assault you with a bunch of Do Nots that, if you do your
darndest to comply with, can make the difference when it
come to whether the Reader will read your work: DO
NOT use a registration mark after your title. The
producer assumes you’re professional enough to
register or copyright your work before you send it out. DO
NOT use the “we” word: we see, we hear, we
sense, we feel... DO
NOT tell the reader what to do with the camera.
Don’t pull back, zoom in, pan to, close up on, wide
shot of... You write, let the director direct. This kind
of stuff irritates the heck out of a Reader and insults
the director. DO
NOT jam your paragraphs. Before a primary slug line you
should have three spaces. Before a secondary slug line
it’s okay to have only two. DO
NOT introduce a prominent character without also
describing them. Age, look, etc. gives the Reader a
picture of your character. Otherwise you let the Reader
create the character. You want that, go get the Reader to
co-write with you. DO
NOT allow a descriptive (action) paragraph to go deeper
than five lines before double-spacing to begin again.
This is not five sentences, it’s five lines!
Otherwise the page looks like too much of a chore to
read. You don’t want the Reader negative before
reading. You don’t want the Reader putting your
script on the bottom of the “I’ll get to that
one when I have all the time in the world” stack.
I’m sure you can see how this particular paragraph
that you are presently reading (back off and look at it),
which goes deeper than five lines, looks like a whole lot
more work to read than one with only five or fewer lines.
Know what I mean, Vern? DO
NOT forget to put the “circa” information (THE
PRESENT) (1886) (2050) (SOMETIME IN THE FAR DISTANT
FUTURE) at the far end of your very first slug line on
page one. The Reader needs to know right off where they
are in time. More
next time.
Raw
World is...Heaven on Earth! by Til de la Fuente, VegNews
Staff Writer Excerpted
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Inside This Issue About the Cover........ 3 Book Reviews............... 15 Baptist Dog 13 Critter Fixer Fund....... 11 Corny Red Neck Humor............... 15 Disorder in the American Courts....... 9 Fair Trade Chocolate 10 Final Word on Italian Cookies............... 14 Kudos to You and You and You.......... 5 Letters to the Editor..... 13 New Words 2003........ 11 North Central NM Events 3 Marriage Counseling 14 Movie Making in New Mexico..... 8 Oh, Shoot!.. 14 PEACE........ 5 Raw World is...Heaven on Earth.. 12 Screenwriting Tips From Larry....... 12 Southern California Artists Bring Joy of
Cartooning 7 Taking Over the World. 7 Theft of Police Badges Sparks Too Much of a Bad Thing 4 “We, The Screenwriters”...............
5 Wheat, The Whole Wheat, and Nothing But The
Heat.. 7 When They Say It’s Locally Grown, They
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