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The Equivalent of Ten Scenes

The Equivalent of Ten Scenes

I started out earlier today finishing up my fifth scene for Act One of Part One of my Movie Introduction for my Water Wars scriptwriting project. that’s the last two of four single paragraphs. Then I did nine more full scenes. After the nine I did the first two single paragraphs of four for the tenth scene. That’s why the blog title is what it is above.

Out of those ten equivalent scenes, I did a total of thirty-three single paragraphs. One of them was for an Establishing Shot. That means I averaged three single paragraphs per scene. Four in a couple of them. Scenes Five, Ten, and now Fifteen were the scenes with the four single paragraphs. I also had a few dialogue single paragraphs too, but not too many of them.

Overall, the last couple of days I have done very well when it comes to the number of scenes, I have gotten done in one day. After last Saturday and Sunday, I’m not all that surprised I have gotten so many scenes written the last two days, but it’s still about double what I expected to get done. It may not take as long to write these scripts as I thought.

When I first started these scripts, I figured if I could do five scenes per weekday and ten scenes each day on the weekends it would take me about a month and a half to two months to finish each script for this project. That’s thirty scenes per week. Divide that by one hundred and eighty scenes and that’s six weeks aka a month and a half.

The extra half a month is for those weeks that I don’t get thirty scenes. Now it looks like it may be closer to a month and a half no matter how bad it gets for me in some weeks. It may even be about a month if I keep going like I have been going this week. after all, if figured five scenes per day during the weekdays. Yesterday I did eight and a half scenes.

Today it was the equivalent of ten scenes. That means yesterday was a little over one and a half times five, and today was about double five. So, if my weekends are fifteen to twenty scenes per day, it may not take me as long to write these scenes as I thought it was going to take. After last Sunday, I may be right about this not taking so long.

If I can get these scripts done in a month and a half each, then I will get them done in about nine months. That would be great. Of course, I still need to transcribe my handwriting to my laptop. No matter how I do it, hopefully, that won’t take me that long to do. If I can get them transcribed in three months, then it will take about a year to finish this project.