Noa/Rice Digital Presents: "Checkmate"

Brandon Rice said:
Thanks. I just took a look at the beginning of the script I had written based on this concept, and it's already 7 pages long, uh-oh...
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The script for second hand smoke was just over 6 pages long too, and it was only 5 minutes with credits and stuff.
 
Hey thanks for all the comments! I will keep this thread as updated as I can :) I am looking forward to this one, and will be trying some new things on this.
 
Virum said:
Brandon Rice said:
Thanks. I just took a look at the beginning of the script I had written based on this concept, and it's already 7 pages long, un-oh...
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The script for second hand smoke was just over 6 pages long too, and it was only 5 minutes with credits and stuff.
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Virum, you say your script was just over 6 pages long, can you estimate what ratio of dialog to action you had in your script? I'm just curious as I'll have to try and keep this story under 7 pages and I can see this story easily growing to 15 or 20 pages while still being lean.

Peace,
Larry
 
right now I have a 9 pages script but that includes a lot of info about camera setups, location setup etc....so I guess it could be about 4 minutes....it's always tricky trying to measure film lenght according to script's number of pages
 
VersuS said:
right now I have a 9 pages script but that includes a lot of info about camera setups, location setup etc....so I guess it could be about 4 minutes....it's always tricky trying to measure film lenght according to script's number of pages
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Especially when it contains information not normally contained in a script. :beer:
 
Good luck guys, can't wait to see some more updates.

VersuS said:
right now I have a 9 pages script but that includes a lot of info about camera setups, location setup etc....so I guess it could be about 4 minutes....it's always tricky trying to measure film lenght according to script's number of pages
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If you use Final Draft you can do script reports (I think that is what it's called) that can only show the action and dialogue. The theory of 1 minute per page is based on a script with only action and dialogue. Walter Murch times how long it takes to read it through to get a gauge. So in theory you could read a little slower for a part that might require a slow dolly shot and read fast for action sequences... maybe.?.?.
 
Ramjet1979 said:
How do you end up with these name actors, man? B-Man's got connections
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If you're referring to Patrick, we have a mutual friend and have as of late been working on a little bit together, he's a great singer too, and is the vocalist in the end credits song for Smuggler's Ransom :)
 
Cool. And Anthony Tyler Quinn as well???? It's great man, but I'm jealous :) ke hee. I saw Patrick in a movie on the Disney channel. The one with "Malcom" who was doing the soap-box derby. Other stuff too, but that's all I can think of at the moment.
Anyways, very cool man. Looking forward to it.
Are you affiliated with disney? :)

Jason
 
Cool poster, I like it.

Never a bad thing to have a name or two involved. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
 
Is Jeff Doba someone I may have seen in anything?

Looking pretty good man, with the cast and the poster, looking forward to seeing some more developments

Nosaj
 
Oh yeah, I watched the trailers for both of those flicks, I don't remember him in smugg... though. I'll have to check it out again.

Nosaj
 
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