Finally starting a screenplay

[Napster]

Finally decided to get on paper my idea for a screenplay.

Written one scene already, now to get the characters names. Having some fun with this...

Jason Rammell - the protagonist. Glasses, black hair, middle-aged, wiry, runs for fun. Lives alone. College professor
Chris Tilson - his friend, very well-read. Deals in archaic books. Blonde. Recently married with kids.
Jennifer Brush - the love interest
Dr Ron Pettefer -expert in the supernatural

 

[londonblue]

Finally decided to get on paper my idea for a screenplay.

Written one scene already, now to get the characters names. Having some fun with this...

Jason Rammell - the protagonist. Glasses, black hair, middle-aged, wiry, runs for fun. Lives alone. College professor
Chris Tilson - his friend, very well-read. Deals in archaic books. Blonde. Recently married with kids.
Jennifer Brush - the love interest
Dr Ron Pettefer -expert in the supernatural

Brilliant!

BTW: I have a couple of ideas. One I have been told by a director of photography would make a good short story, and the other is for an episode of Dr. Who.

I have no idea how to put them down on paper though...and what to do after that...

 

[Napster]

Brilliant!

BTW: I have a couple of ideas. One I have been told by a director of photography would make a good short story, and the other is for an episode of Dr. Who.

I have no idea how to put them down on paper though...and what to do after that...

Oh I'm literally just writing and re-editing. I once read something from someone who said, the best thing to do is just write. And write and write.

After I'm done, well, I'll get some opinion from anyone who wants to read it, and then send to some agents for appraisal. Who knows? I have plenty of ideas. This one's my first.

 

[londonblue]

Oh I'm literally just writing and re-editing. I once read something from someone who said, the best thing to do is just write. And write and write.

After I'm done, well, I'll get some opinion from anyone who wants to read it, and then send to some agents for appraisal. Who knows? I have plenty of ideas. This one's my first.

Good luck!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Good luck Naps, I wrote a couple of pages of my million selling novel this week when I was bored at work (and there were no new ShrimperZone posts....)...

 

[EastStandBlue]

I think for any prospective Dr Who script, the done thing is to just leak it online first. Or send it to MK, as he clearly doesn't have a lot on at the moment.

Anything else I can recommend sending through to the BBC Scriptroom service when there's a submission window open. Got some great feedback on something I sent to them last year.

 

[dloman]

Screenplays are very difficult to write due to the directions, i.e EXT and INT and so on and so forth. Sometimes better to write it as a novel or preferably a novella (About 20000 - 40000 words ideal for a screenplay) first.

 

[Napster]

Screenplays are very difficult to write due to the directions, i.e EXT and INT and so on and so forth. Sometimes better to write it as a novel or preferably a novella (About 20000 - 40000 words ideal for a screenplay) first.

Yeah, at the moment, it's more of a case of getting the flow right, the scenes, the narrative and then tieing it together. It would work well as a novel, but at this moment, I can picture the film version in my head and that's what I'm getting down on paper.

 

[Napster]

Anything else I can recommend sending through to the BBC Scriptroom service when there's a submission window open. Got some great feedback on something I sent to them last year.

Cheers, no window open as yet. What was your submission?

 

[Napster]

Good luck Naps, I wrote a couple of pages of my million selling novel this week when I was bored at work (and there were no new ShrimperZone posts....)...

Hooray! Middle of novel, end or start? I'm working from the end and adding scenes as I see them.

 

[dloman]

Have you wrote a brief plan? As in a few words for each scene, kind of so you know where you are going with it as you write it.

 

[Napster]

Have you wrote a brief plan? As in a few words for each scene, kind of so you know where you are going with it as you write it.

Yeah, what I've done is made them chapter headings so they can signpost where it's going.

 

[Jam_Man]

Could you write the next Game of Thrones book. Ive been reading them again. I have, Im not making it up, and I am about to finish the last one and George Martin is dragging his feet.

PS could you add more robots, it needs more robots.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Cheers, no window open as yet. What was your submission?

Comedy I've been tinkering with on and off for the last two years or so.

 

[Napster]

Comedy I've been tinkering with on and off for the last two years or so.

Cool - I sent in some sketches aaages ago to the BBC and didn't hear back so I guess comedy isn't my ouevre. Are you still pursuing it?

 

[Napster]

Could you write the next Game of Thrones book. Ive been reading them again. I have, Im not making it up, and I am about to finish the last one and George Martin is dragging his feet.

PS could you add more robots, it needs more robots.

I would love to but the characters I would kill off would be different from what GRRM wants

:winking:

 

[Mad Cyril]

I've submitted a few scripts to Crimewatch but haven't heard anything back yet.

I am quietly confident though because the current writers are awful.

People want highly ritualistic serial killers, not petty criminals who hospitalise pensioners for fifty quid.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

I've submitted a few scripts to Crimewatch but haven't heard anything back yet.

Do any of your scripts involve the Pier? Martin Bayfield was filming on there on Tuesday. Maybe your big break is coming :omg:

 

[EastStandBlue]

Cool - I sent in some sketches aaages ago to the BBC and didn't hear back so I guess comedy isn't my ouevre. Are you still pursuing it?

Haven't touched it in about half a year. Haven't got the time to be perfectly honest. I'll get round to it.

 

[Napster]

Haven't touched it in about half a year. Haven't got the time to be perfectly honest. I'll get round to it.

Cool - keep us updated.