Worse still? If they’re all similar in description, or serve in similar function to the story. If your script’s got a PAMELA and a PAULA and a PENNY, you’re making your script reader ( read: potential producer, potential agent) work too hard to keep names and characters straight. Withhold your Jiffy Rage for a jiffy and let me explain. “You call that screenwriting advice? ‘Change the names’?! I can get better advice at the Jiffy Lube.” Make sure your characters all have very different names Either way, it’s the hack’s way of trying to fool some of the people all of the time. Other screenwriting programs have cheat functions too. In Final Draft, you have to dig a little and adjust each element’s paragraph/margins, but it’s still doable. In Movie Magic Screenwriter, there’s a function for it. (PS If Frank Stallone is the one reading your script, I can’t help you.) What is a “noob-weenie?” It’s a rare hybrid species, resulting from the mating of a noob with a weenie. #Things and people script slugline movie5″, and squeezing down the line spacing from 100% to 85% (in Movie Magic Screenwriter, for example), you might think you’re being sly, or subtle, or any other of the Stallone family, but what you’re really doing is sending a signal to the person reading your script.Īnd that signal is: noob-weenie. Behold: A Cheated Page Un-cheat your screenplay’s page countīy surreptitiously boosting the top and bottom margins to.
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