tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23732661.post7675149859866496109..comments2023-09-09T14:28:57.480+01:00Comments on The Scriptwriter: LOST SOUL Day 24Dominic Carverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10148603580719526847noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23732661.post-23178466944596502502012-02-02T10:44:10.850+00:002012-02-02T10:44:10.850+00:00Ha!
No, not the kind of insight I was looking fo...Ha! <br /><br />No, not the kind of insight I was looking for.Robert Yateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14688961946238771517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23732661.post-24289759373312319052012-02-01T09:02:51.988+00:002012-02-01T09:02:51.988+00:00Nah, you wouldn't want to see me that early in...Nah, you wouldn't want to see me that early in the morning wearing just my y-fronts...or would you?Dominic Carverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148603580719526847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23732661.post-64409897498105630902012-01-24T14:58:30.417+00:002012-01-24T14:58:30.417+00:00You have been busy!
Just caught up with this; it&...You have been busy!<br /><br />Just caught up with this; it's great.<br /><br />It's really good to see your hard work and total effort paying off. <br /><br />Great advice and insight from the world of the first draft!<br /><br />All the best.<br /><br />PS: Throw in a web-cam and we've got the next best thing to a Screenwriter reality TV series. :)Robert Yateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14688961946238771517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23732661.post-81464712713169898402012-01-24T11:13:55.524+00:002012-01-24T11:13:55.524+00:00As the script editor said to me early on it wasn&#...As the script editor said to me early on it wasn't worth busting a gut over it, sweating to get every detail right, rewriting everything until I'm 100% happy with it, because the producer and director will only go and ask for changes to all my hard work - quite possibly drastic changes. It's best to just get it written - to a reasonable standard - then let the director and producer make the changes they want before I go back and polish the hell out of it.<br /><br />Where most of my effort and hard work will be focused is on the final draft. That is when I will do my best work, so they have the best possible screenplay to shoot from.<br /><br />It's not like writing your own spec, polishing the hell out of it before you send it out. People are going to want changes, so it's best to leave the best work until last.<br /><br />I don't mean your first draft should be shit, it still has to be good, but you just don't have to pour your heart and soul into it. They're paying me to produce the best screenplay I can...but over several drafts, not on the first attempt.<br /><br />Besides if I wrote a totally perfect first draft (something that's not possible...ever) I would do myself out of rewrite money for future drafts.<br /><br />At the end of the process they will get the best screenplay they could possibly get and I will have sweated blood to get it there.<br /><br />That's the lesson I've learnt writing this feature and a valuable lesson too :-)Dominic Carverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148603580719526847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23732661.post-41454440609062532902012-01-24T10:41:38.427+00:002012-01-24T10:41:38.427+00:00Hi Dom,
Yes it's been interesting - what I fi...Hi Dom,<br /><br />Yes it's been interesting - what I find strange, though, is the idea of knocking out a script and throwing it (almost) raw at the company concerned.<br /><br />I mean I imagine you'll be getting notes :-) but even so...Adaddinsanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10577587188266580561noreply@blogger.com