Consider the Frankenstein metaphor: stitching the creature together is one thing, bringing it to life is something else entirely. The margin for error in writing a script is enormous, because a screenplay isn’t a story to be read on its own: rather, it is a blueprint for creating something larger and much more complex. ![]() You could have a one hundred and fifty page script that would only justify forty minutes of screentime. You could craft a beautifully heartfelt and original script that will be rendered completely unfilmable by virtue of the way that you wrote it. The problem is that scripts are as much technical documents as they are works of art. ![]() Anyone who’s spent time in a script editor knows the giddy sensation of typing along and finding themselves suddenly ten, or twenty, or even thirty pages into a script. Another part of the deception is the textual nature of screenplays themselves: the formatting on the page creates a lot of empty space.
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