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Should I post this?
I've written a scirpt for my school's film festival. It's all about how a friend of mine becomes completely obsessed with Pokemon and begins to think its real. (its a documentary) I was wondering if it would be appropriate to post the script in the fan fiction section or if I should just wait until we finish the movie.
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The thing you'll want to be careful about is scripts. Generally, scripts are frowned upon unless they're particularly done well, and you may end up with your piece getting closed. I would suggest trying to turn it into prose work first, and if that doesn't work, send it through a beta who's familiar with script format to help you work things out (as in, make sure your writing is perfect and you have a handle on how to write stage directions and such).
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lol sounds like scripts are dangerous. o well i guess i'll jst wait til i actually make the movie. it'll be better anyways
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Well, only in the sense that people tend to look at scripts and expect low-quality "chat form" fics -- as in, fics in which the author's too lazy to so much as punctuate correctly, so he mistakes script writing as the "easy way out." So, if you're going to do a script, you really have to be sure to do it correctly and as flawlessly as you can in order to avoid being lumped in with the "I didn't really put effort into this" crowd at first glance.
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Script fics are frowned upon because generally they look something like this:
Julie: Oh its lucario watchout grovyle! Max: Lucario use aura sphere now Julie: Watchout grovyle dodge and use solar beam Max: Dodge the solar beam lucario noooooo Lucario: Lucarioooooooo! (its in pain if youd idnt get it) So, if your script doesn't look like this but instead has some description of the surroundings and feelings, has coherent plot and decent grammar and also follows the rules of writing a script, you should be somewhat fine. You see, the problem often is that most script fics seem to be very badly made and have nothing but the dialogue and some introduction. At least as far as I've seen, that is, so I might not be completely right about this. In any case, what we're trying to say here is that if your script is done well and with thought and so on, it should be fully acceptable. If you're not sure, then I figure you might as well try to post it. If it gets mocked or locked, you'll know you did it wrong and can ask someone what was it that went wrong with it. Although, if you feel that it isn't written well enough, it might be best that you didn't post it. The final judgement in this case is up to you, really. Good luck with it anyway. |
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Writing is writing. You put your hands to the keyboard or the pen to the paper and make pretty words, and it's still writing either way. Likewise, you don't have to make a movie in order to call it a script. Plays, for example. And even then, playwrights write in the first place in order to get their ideas down on paper. It doesn't necessarily have to be performed right after or even written with a specific cast and setting in mind. It just needs to be able to be performed because of understandable parts and stage directions. Besides, even if you make a movie out of it, you can still royally screw up formatting. As in, you can have a script be exactly like An-chan's example, and it'd still get closed because that's not proper script format. (In a sense, it wouldn't be an actual script because half of it is missing.) So, really, the media is moot (as icomeanon's already mentioned), even if you post the media with the script. It will still be a badly formatted chat-style fic unless you know what you're doing. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't, hence why a lot of "scripts" get closed. |
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However, I understand what you are saying and I defninitely shouldn't have said that is isn't writing because that's not actually what I meant. I meant more along the line that it's half assed writing. Which, quite frankly, my script is. It is sort of half assed. The reason I'm not worried about it is because... it's going to be a comedy and it's a film festival. So there really isn't a need for it to be a comprehensive, symbolism using, incredible script. |
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