Script Breakdown: Making a Frugal Short Film, part 5

[@AWPPrivate]

Great job!! Great content. Another way to do this is to use CELTX tagging and then it creates the reports for you. Including 1/8's and so on. CELTX is 100% free as well. So it's quite FRUGAL

[@anuragupadhyay-se]

Just moved to UoU apartments and totally amazed to see the place in your videos. So amazing.

[@frugalfilmmaker]

Nice! Go Utes!

[@OlivertheJoyboy]

Very well explained! Thanks a bunch Scott!

[@Pietje_Piraat]

oh man. good idea with the pencils

[@JeffLafferty]

Cool, great ideas man

[@starttherebellion9146]

Hope everything's OK. Haven't seen a new video from you in a while. - Hope you're busy making some great film.

[@VintageElectronicsGeek]

I was wondering the same thing, had to make sure I wasn't accidentally unsub'd !! :)

[@starttherebellion9146]

Hopefully he'll let us know. Hope everything is OK.

[@VintageElectronicsGeek]

Hopefully and hope so! Maybe he finally is out braving the cold and filming an epic masterpiece of his town...or inside his studio / laundry room!

[@starttherebellion9146]

That would be great. He deserves it for all that he's done to help all of us.

[@starttherebellion9146]

This was his last Twitter entry... The Frugal Filmmaker ‏@frugalfilmmaker Aug 1 Time to get back on that horse... ---------- I can't check his Facebook as I am not already a member. I requested membership, but it has to be approved before you can see his FB page. So, a bit of a catch22 OK I'm sure we'll know something soon enough.

[@kenbest7660]

Great info., and we'll done.

[@frugalfilmmaker]

Thanks Ken!

[@Mr9dimensional]

Thanks for all the info

[@ladyqonimvu8604]

when is a new video coming?

[@moremalachi4837]

if someone is singing would that go under music/sound effects or nothing at all . someone help me out.

[@emoryschley5546]

TV scripts roughly equate to one minute per page generally. so can we assume this 1/8 of a page for films eats up about 7.5 seconds?

[@AWPPrivate]

Yeah, one page is generally one minute for all narrative scrips as far as I know. So yeah 7.5 sec per 1/8. The 1/8's really come into play when you're making a schedule. It's needed to be more precise. Film scheduling goes like this: 1 script page roughly equals one minute of screen time. This obviously varies when there’s stunts, special effects, car explosions, or really heavily emotional/physically draining on the cast content. Script pages are typically 8 inches long Each inch of a page is 1/8th of a page. To determine the length of a scene, the scene in the script is measured out by how many inches of the page it takes up. A scene that is 5/8ths would be 5 inches out of 1 full script page. In screen time, that would be just over half a minute. usually scheduling is done by location, so if you have multiple scenes that take place in different parts of the screenplay at the same location--you can accurately set the number of days at that location. 120/8s at location "A" would be 15 pages or three days at that location. based on the 5 pages a day rule. You can see if at that location you had one scene that was 3/8's and another scene that was 30/8's and other scenes how the 1/8ths of a page would be useful. Usually on big productions the 1st AD does the Script Breakdown, and also is a major contributor to the schedule.

[@MileyonDisney]

FIRST!

[@nathanielfoo7835]

Well done