What are you working on today, /tv/?
>>220847938be honest, anon, have you been able to steal a singular good idea from one of these threads?
the backrooms movie should honestly be the most inspiring thing ever for any indie film writer who ever got told not to bother.if some puddle-deep internet slop built off a stolen 4chan post can get A24 backing and make actual money, then fuck me, literally anyone has a shot.good luck bros. anything is possible!
>>220848022A24 sucks.
>>220847957Mainly I just use these threads to ask stupid questionsLike... which of these is more correct?
>>220848022That's the problem, you need to actually steal from some creepypasta first and then turn it into a popular youtube trendhopping series before anyone even notices you
Up to 52 pages in my low budget innawoods script, so about half way
>>220847938Currently revising my horror script, for me this is always the hardest part. I can usually crank out an outline and first draft fairly easily, but making what exists better is very hard.
I have not done this for fun in a long time. What is the best web based software to do this with for free? I do not care if the site runs ads.
I have written:>two seasons of Doctor Who>a buddy cop genre film set during the third crusade where a christian crusader vampire and a muslim Mohammed's conquest army vampire have to team upI might write something else. I've had a few ideas. One about the last woman on Earth and she has to do a bunch of shit to do ivf to bring humanity back. But it'd probably be shit.
How do you do if you have a very good movie idea and outline but you have virtually no idea how to write dialogue?
>>220849067*What do you do
>>220849067Just write.>But it'll be shitOk but rewriting shit into good is a totally different and often necessary thing compared to writing good writing right off the bat.
>>220847938I’m a writer. I wrote a novel and lots of short stories. I have a couple tv show ideas but not like I’ll ever get to pitch them
>>220847938>not a single good or popular free script sharing website>no one wants to read a screenplay for fun>hollywood doesn't even hire based on spec anymore and hasn't for a long timeA waste of time
Writing a book but it's gotten away from me and who the main character is has completely changed because of me liking a character.
>>220848989I use VSCode and the BetterFountain extension. You'll have to learn to write with the Fountain markup format (it's simple), and then the extension can output it as a formatted PDF.But I only use that because I'm a coder and used to working in VSCode. There's other software out there that's probably better.
>>220849067CHATGPT
>>220849067Just write the screenplay to have the actors ad lib all of the dialog>>220849131Yes, obviously they aren't going to listen to some rando's pitch. But if you want, you can write scripts for the pilot episodes and see if anyone is interested.This site has TV episode scripts too:https://thescriptsavant.com/tv.html
>>220848022I am finishing my treatment loosely based on the boy who wound up trapped facedown in a cave. He doesn't die in my story he noclips into a realm that is like Alice in Wonderland x a doompilled Ready Player One. Not sure if he's shown to be dead all the time at the end.
>>220849251I’m a factory worker from Ohio. Nobody going to read my pilot script.
>>220849067Are you autistic? Dialogue is the easiest shit for me to write. Use action but not a lot. The classic he said, she said works best.
Awkward teen girl has to retrieve a video of her being bullied to get a boy expelled, but puts herself in increasing desperate, hypocritical, and dangerous situations to get the proof.
>>220848075It's >hyay! >styup! >>220848101It would also be quite difficult to retain ownership or creative control of the project through all of those stages.
>>220847938A small town on an Island where everyone works at a large factory on the Island. They don’t get paid money, but the more things they buy, the more years they are required to work at factory. Who is the Overseer and what is the true purpose of the Island? Will the occupants find out before the secretive HR eliminates them?
>>220849841Hank rifled through his sister’s old chest, sitting at the foot of her bed. The wooden chest, with the rusted handles and rivets. It looked ancient, like something Cousteau found at the bottom of the sea. What amazing treasures could this be hiding? With his large helm and rigid suit with a hose attached to the top. Air, being pumped into his lungs. Except the chest holds no treasure, oh no, it’s full of his dead sister’s only belongings. The last remaining remnants, that she even existed. Her body now dust and bones, in a box, pressed on all sides by the earth.Feeling through to dark places his eyes couldn’t see, his hand grasped something hard. It felt like a key, but he couldn’t be sure. He yanked, and pulled, turning his arm this way and that. Up to his elbow, his arm surrounded by copies of old bills, and quilts that smelled liked mothballs. Junk, all junk, but the Key the key could be something. Sweat was dripping from his brow now, his hand almost free from its prison.
>>220849928With great effort, he gave one last tug, and Bam! He was flat on his back. With hesitation he lifted his fingers one by one. Like the key was an insect ready to jump away at any second. Finally, there it was, a small rusted skeleton key. He lifted it to his mouth, and took a bite, it chipped his tooth. In horror he tossed the key aside, more junk he thought."
>>220848022But remember that poster stole it from somewhere else. You actually have to make something with your ideas for their to be any value or actual copyright.Getting stuck via noclipping or in some event is hardly original. We've had the idea of purgatory for centuries.
>>220850756this is rthe good one
>>220850818Who gives a fuck about shows already made? How does this help anyone? If you’re a non Jew you’re not getting a show/movie sold in Hollywood. If you’re a white male nobody will publish shit you write.
>had an idea for something for my script as I was falling asleep last night>forgot about it after I woke up
Ok writerfags.Give me a line that a women supe would shout to a male villain while fistfighting, WITHOUT making it girlbossy/woke.Lets see if YOU can do it
>>220851309I don’t write capeshit.
>>220847938A condensed horror script I pitched got an actual response, and they want to see the script, which I don't have... yet.>>220848953My advice would be this: if you have notes, implement them in the script. Change the page to yellow color or something, just so you know you put the thing in there. Have it be kinda 'on the nose' or raw or whatever.Now, when you do a rewrite, do this:Read the page to get a 'feeling' of what's going on.GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE LINE.SINGLE LINE.Read it. Delete it, then just write it. Try to make it better, shorter, more oomph. Anything, just change it. Now change it to red color or something, so you know what you've touched. It's gonna be grueling work, but I think it usually always improves the flow.>>220849067If you have a solid outline and a good idea of what and who your characters are, the dialogue will fly to the page. Even if it doesn't, just get it out. You can write what they SAY and what they MEAN. If you stick to one, you can easily rewrite it to work later.
Has anyone read the original John Wick screenplay?https://thescriptsavant.com/movies/John_Wick.pdfIt's a bit different from the movie, but I'm curious about the writing. Is it... good? Or is this overwritten?Also: splitting sentences with slug lines during kinetic scenes... good idea, or bad? It's kind of a pain to read, but I don't know anything.
I wrote a page of a sequel to my wallace & gromit esque animation short. No I haven't made the first one yet, I'm working on the story board and puppets.
>>220851264Couldn't be me. You gotta train your mind to remember what you were thinking about while you fall asleep, while you wake up and even while you're sleeping. Some of my best ideas come from my dreams. You might be able to save what you "lost" if you start thinking about the most recent thing you DO remember thinking about last night and then trying to go down the same trail of thoughts as before to jog your memory.>>220851309This matters entirely based on context, the conflict and the character's personality. The fact you think we can just say "hiya bitchfucker!!!" like it's complete drag and drop madlibs is exactly the problem capeshit is having.
I am going to write The Cats of Istambul screenplay. It's not going to be called that obviously, but my story idea comes from this /tv/ meme.
>>220851309>>220852018Spider-Man would never say the same thing as Punisher and neither of them would ever say the same thing as Ghost Rider and all three of them would never say the same thing as Hulk. The fact you think we can just say "yeah a girl supe would say THIS!" shows exactly why girl super heroes suck. They have no unique characters. Make a unique character first and then you get your dialog.
>>220851309>It's just been revoked!
>>220847938what do you even do with your screenplays when you're finished?
>>220847938Voldemort ww2 prequel series where he forms the death eaters as a anti Nazi organization after surviving the london blitz.Reverse AlienPrequel family story pre-Jurrassic park with old man Hammond and his son Dennis as we see their fall apart from father and son to corporate rivals.Vampire documentary explaining how E plus B = R in the twilight series on a biological level. Pro tip...its because Edward was a virgin when he turned and never used his ONE original semenic load until he gently impregnated Bella. Not impossible but combining a bunch of rare factors to produce a actual child.
>>220848022I dunno. Being a blender autist was the key factor in Parsons getting enough attention to be picked up. He didn't have anything to do with the actual script which is by some TV writer
>>220852018>>220852133>>220851375>Muh lines are good, but I just need you to be invested 2 hours into this character's backstory and see all the context of the movie and understand all the reasons of the villain!>But the l-line will be good after you get all that I'm sure!!!!Imagine being this plebian
>>220848075Top one. Buy pic related.
>>220852694I have that open right now, it doesn't address that specific issue... at least I didn't see it. I assumed top was correct, so that's what I did, but then someone gave me weird feedback that the 2nd one was correct, but I never saw it in the wild... so I'll just ignore them.
>>220852694just got it on libgen, thx
>>220852746All parentheticals go beneath the character's name. However, you can just tuck it in action/direction.
>>220848022You are correct. He'd mentioned using blender so I downloaded it and I look forward to learning how to use it. I want to eventually be able to re-create the cities described in Invisible Cities. I don't quite think I'd be able to develop that further into any sort of script (since it would be 1) an adaptation and 2) fairly episodic) but there's no reason not to use free tools and learn what I can do with them.
what happen does not matter, it's just the hook that lures them in. they stay because you create a world they want to be a part of
>>220852450>characters don't matter when writing one linersImagine being this retarded
>>220852779Wait, is that even true for (V.O.)? I thought you wrote that next to the name.
>>220854379(V.O.), (O.S.) and renaming a character happen after the name
>>220854406Yipee!!!!
>>220848075Accent parentheticals almost always go below the character name. The only time I use a parenthetical beside the name is (O.S.) for off-screen dialogue or (V.O.) for voiceovers.
Vibe coding my writing tool, it supports multiple script versions, drag and drop of scenes, scene variations. Haven't set up all text formatting yet because I don't know it.. Gonna make a character system also
