Recent content by A Whitmer

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It crossed my mind with the / in the slugs, but with all the other issues I passed on it. Here's where a simple instruction like SPLIT SCREEN would have come in handy. Yeah, I made it through page two and I am indeed all mixed up. I agree there are some interesting, ethereal elements here...

Stumbled across this site today. At the risk of sounding callous, there are some great story ideas here, some good details on what went down, photo galleries and more. Some old stuff, too. If you write period pieces, you do need a window into how things were done in days of old...

Just from reading the first two pages I can see disaster on set, and this is something that is often overlooked. The script is confusing as to who is where, and I can see cast and crew standing around trying to sort it out. That means lost time - and money - actually filming this, even with a...

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Page 2 This ... MRS. JANSEN (to class) Quiet! I'm on the fence if the parenthetical is needed here. I can see where one might think that was directed toward Dennis. Yeah, keep it. This ... They swiftly become still. Oddly worded and an uneeded adverb. 'still' also suggests they were...

Gonna do this one page at a time, then follow up on story. This ... INT. 4TH GRADE HISTORY CLASSROOM - DAY I'm not opposed to this slug, but my first question is, how do I know it's 4th grade? Kids in the 3rd are not all that different. Fifth, maybe (onset of puberty for early bloomers), but...

These kinds of vermin bet on most folks NOT doing their homework. Seen the same crap with cinematographers taking credit for work they did not do, and of course dirtbags taking writer credits they did not earn. Or even just outright stealing a screenplay and calling it their own. There is a...

That's a tragic perspective, but at least you did say 'nearly', which leaves a small window for something entirely original. I get that maybe you are more interested in making a film than telling an original story, so you tap into what's already been done and try to make it better. It should...

Lost my old passowrd in a Javascript meltdown, so starting a new account. A few old projects still stumbling along, a few new ones coming along with a glimmer of promise. Picked up a win in Austraila for best children's short. Finally getting the old writing zone back after the big rip-off...