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A Better Change for My Water Wars Scriptwriting Project

A Better Change for My Water Wars Scriptwriting Project

No, I haven’t changed my mind again about the way I’m going to write my Water Wars Outlines and Treatments. Well, that isn’t exactly true. I am going to change the number of scenes that I’m going to be using for my movie and episode Treatments. What does that mean? I will try to explain it now.

Originally, I was going to use the forty-five minutes format for my movie and the television episodes because that’s the standard length of a television episode. At least it is for the four main networks. But what about the cable networks? They are doing a lot more television shows now too. In fact, I recently got an email from The Script Lab about it. And they aren’t limited to the forty-five minutes format.

I already changed my mind about the length of my Water Wars movie. Most television movies are two hours long. Unless they are part of a mini-series. That means the scripts are about one hundred pages long. And each page equals one minute. Which means that they are fifty minutes for each hour. That’s what I changed my mind about. My Water Wars movie will now be fifty minutes per hour long. Of course, with Scene Headings plus Establishing Shots it will be about a hundred and twenty minutes long. That equals about sixty pages per hour. And that’s the standard for the television industry today. They want their scripts about fifty-five to sixty-five pages.

My movie Treatment and script reflects that change. Now my episodes do too. At first, I was going to try to do them with the forty-five minutes format. And I almost got it done that way too. But I couldn’t quite solve my problems. While trying to figure it out, I realized that these scripts could also be fifty minutes long too. Especially, if I sale this series to one of the cable networks. Which is probably what is going to happen. I would like it on the main networks. And I hope that it will be. But it’s probably more suited for the cable one.

What am I going to do at work today? I going to start working on my Outlines and Treatments. Probably won’t get to the one sentence part of them. But I should be able to get the first letter of their names with their scene numbers done. At the very least I will get them started. I don’t know if I can get them done or not. But I should be able to get some of it done. A lot of that depends on how busy I am at work today.

I still need to verify that each character gets the same number of scenes. That’s not what I mean to write. They already have the same number of scenes. All I need to do is verify that they are equal with the type of scenes that they have. What does that mean? It means that I want them to have the same number of ones, threes, six, and eight scenes. That also goes for the two, four, seven, and nines. It’s especially important for the fives and tens too. I don’t know if they will be exactly equal. But they should be very close. My verification will establish that. I was going to do that tonight before I went to sleep. But time has gotten away from me again.

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