Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts during the past week:
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TVWriter™ Top Posts for the Week Ending 6/6/14
Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts during the past week:
Mark Your Calendar with These Important TVWriter™ Dates
Well, we think they’re important, so:
Thursday, May 29th:
An all new TVWriter™ Advanced Online Workshop starts – and this one’s wide open to the first 5 people who register!
Sunday, June 1st:
This is the last day to enter and upload your entries to the TVWriter™ 2014 People’s Pilot Contest. You’ve got till 11:59 pm so – hurry!
LB Answers Your Questions about Animation Writing
Well, maybe not your questions, but those from a certain DP for sure. Here’s what he wrote:
I’m working on a half-hour animated show for the People’s Pilot. How should I gauge my Act lengths, or even my script as a whole? I’ve got a few THE SIMPSONS production scripts that I use as a guideline, each one about 50 pages, though that is longer than what most websites say, and longer than past winners I have looked at for the People’s Pilot (they tend to cap at about 30). Is there a general standard on how many pages each act should be/the script as a whole? It feels incredibly hard to tell. And I don’t understand why single-cam vs multi-cam shows should have different script lengths.
LB: What I Learned From the 2013 People’s Pilot & Spec Scriptacular Competitions
by Larry Brody
How About Some More General Remarks for a Start?
About 10 days ago, I wrote about what I thought all writer-entrants in the 2013 People’s Pilot and Spec Scriptacular Competitions could learn. Unsurprisingly, the lessons were mostly about writing. As in what worked and didn’t work in the entries. If you need me to wait while you refresh your memories, fine, I’m doing that right now.
Just not, you know, in real time.
Okay. With that out of the way, I’d like to move on in the direction I promised in that article and talk about: