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December the ninth – A Great Yesterday for Script Writing

A Great Yesterday for Scriptwriting

Like the title for this Blog entry above says, yesterday was a great day for my scriptwriting. I got done what I wanted to get done. Especially, since it was a lot more than I thought that it was. Not only did I have to update my Scene Breakdown worksheet I also had to update my Outlines too. Once I got them both done then it was time create individual Documents for all three Outlines and Treatments. One is for the movie and the other two are for the first two episodes for my Treasure Finders project.

Updating the Scene Breakdown worksheet took the most time to do. It took me almost four hours to do. I’d like to blame most of that time on work, but I can’t do that. I can’t do that because work wasn’t that bad yesterday. In fact, it was a little slower than usual. So, I can’t blame work. Who I do blame is myself. It took me so long to do it because I thought I was further along with the Scene Breakdown than I was. I thought it was going to take about an hour to do at the most. Instead, it took me almost four times that long to do it.

After I got done with the Scene Breakdown worksheet, I had to update my Outline Breakdown too. It wasn’t too bad, but I did have a little bit to do. Mostly what I had to do was switch lines for the order of the paragraphs that appear in my Scene Breakdown. I also had to change some of those lines slightly. Once again, it wasn’t that bad. After I got that Outline update done, I started creating individual Outlines and Treatments for my movies. Once I got those done and updated too, I started copying and pasting from the Outline Breakdown Document and the Scene Breakdown worksheet.

Coping and pasting from the Scene Breakdown worksheet is only the beginning. Once I got the individual Acts done, then I had to spell out the names for the beginning of those scenes. That didn’t take too long to do, but it did involve some more Coping and pasting. At least the rest of their names. I only had their first letters in the Scene Breakdown worksheet. It took me almost to the end of my work shift to complete but complete it I did. Now comes the hard part. Matching up the one-line sentences in my Outlines to the one-line sentences in my Treatments.

Have I confused anyone who might still be reading this Blog entry? I’m sure I have. I am a little bit confused by it, and I’m the one who is doing it. That’s just the way that I write my scripts. I’ve got to know what is in every scene and every Act before I write them. I do that through my Outlines and my Treatments. Yes, I know that there are no Act numbers in movie scripts. The same is true for numbering scenes, but that’s how I write my Outlines and treatment. When it comes time to do the scripts, I won’t be including either the Acts or the scene numbers. Why do I write my Outlines and Treatments this way? Mostly it’s to show what my movies will be like when they appear on television.

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