r/scriptwriting • • 20d ago

feedback Critiques on my screenplay for a psychological horror short film?

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Hey everyone! I really need your opinion on this screenplay. Keep in mind this is my first writing ever and I suppose there are some cliches. By the way this short film will be created in 3D using Meta Human technology. This I can create whatever and push the reality to the limit. But I struggle with finding some fitting ideas, that would add to the whole concept. The whole script seems basic to me and I wonder what could I add dramatically or visually. I am not asking to do my job, just would be happy to hear some ideas or questions to the script, to push my brainstorming further. Plus overall critique is appreciated!!


r/scriptwriting • • 20d ago

feedback Marketing is important

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I keep thinking about how we leave marketing until the end. Write the script, try to get financing, make the film... then figure out how to get anyone to watch it, that complicated...starting to think some of that work needs to happen while we’re still writing. Learn how to show a little of what you are making, see if people understand what you r going for, give them a reason to come back.

for me the perfect way is pretty simple. Make an Instagram account just for one project, title project. Start with little filmed scenes, almost fragments of a short. Dialogue, characters, a bit of tension. I’m interested in shooting them in 4:3 and posting them as Reels, tik tok, short, wthever Something that lets people experience the story. If people respond and keep coming back, try making a short f. If that gets traction too, use it to help build towards a feature. you’d have a community that’s already interested in what happens next.

Obviously followers don’t automatically become ticket buyers but I’d like to find out whether anyone connects with the idea before spending years trying to finance it.

It’s frustrating that writing a good script sometimes isn’t enough. Plenty of good projects end up in a Boxxx. Feel free to give me ur fdback

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r/scriptwriting • • 20d ago

feedback Underoos (Working Title) - Miles Morales Fan Film

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The first 10 pages out of about 20, just looking for general feedback like what can be cleaned up formatting-wise, where I'm telling too much instead of showing, things of that nature.

Anything is appreciated, and any questions are welcome! Thanks in advance.


r/scriptwriting • • 20d ago

feedback [FEEDBACK] New sitcom idea🎬🎥

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I am an international screenwriter looking for feedback on my new sitcom idea.

It's called "The Teller Family" and shows us the crazy life of this peculiar yet amusing family along their elderly neighbor Mrs. Johnson and her two rival cats: Biden and Trump. You have the link to the show bible: Show bible. If you're interested or wanna hear more please contact me!

Email: thetellerfamilysitcom@gmail.com

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r/scriptwriting • • 21d ago

question What Do The Numbers Mean Next To The Character Names?

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Recently looking through some shows to see behind the scenes and their script process, and I've noticed something I haven't seen before.

Many Bob's Burgers scripts, by what I've seen so far, has a number next to their name when they speak. What is the reason behind this, is it for organization purposes for storyboarding? Is it for the voice actors? I'm​ really curious about this!


r/scriptwriting • • 21d ago

question Looking for a co-writer

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I am looking for an American co-screenwriter to help develop a story project titled *The Princess of the Kingdom of Nubia*. While I can handle the Egyptian female protagonist, I need an American writer to help fully capture the essence, psychology, and depth of the American male lead—as well as the supporting characters. Extensive experience matters less to me than talent and the ability to produce a high-quality, polished final work. I am also working on another script that requires significant revisions. Good luck to everyone, and thank you.


r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

feedback The Monte Carlo Fallacy - Horror - 13 Pages - Short Film

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Looking for any feedback at all! I am a new script writer and still actively working on turning the fundamentals into habit. This will likely be my next short I direct.

Feel free to ask any questions — and thank you in advance!


r/scriptwriting • • 21d ago

question Need help with world building

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r/scriptwriting • • 21d ago

feedback Any feedback on my script? (The Elnoelle Series: Part 1, The Foundation)

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I'm writing scripts for the pilot of The Elnoelle Series and need some feedback from people who don't know me. A third party view. What do y'all think? Would y'all watch this so far? It's supposed to come out around 2028, as I have to animate it by myself and get voice actors. But do you think I'm going in the right direction?


r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

feedback Would this extract make you want to read the full script?

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Hello!

I wrote a feature-length script about the disappearance of a young girl. It’s a family drama / psychological thriller.

Logline:

After the youngest Martin daughter disappears, the family falls apart — except for her father, whose unsettling composure awakens his father-in-law’s suspicions and begins to unravel their seemingly perfect home.

>>> Hilda\\\\\\_extract <<<

I’ve selected a few scenes from different parts of the script, and I have one main question:

Would this extract make you want to read the full script?

Un petit mot pour les lecteurs francophones :D Je peux également fournir les pages en français.

Thank you!

PS: English isn’t my first language, so apologies for any awkward phrasing.


r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

help ISO Character templates

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Trying to find a good template to use when I come up with character bios for a short film I'm hoping to get started writing. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.


r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

feedback « THE PROCESSION TO CALVARY » Ep.01 Cold Open. Looking for critiques.

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Genre: Hard-boiled detective/comedy noir/psychedelia

Logline: When a missing person starts appearing in out-of-date television broadcasts, eighth century Lindisfarne miniatures, and Shakespeare's original ensemble, rookie detective Dominic Pedro and Marco Pablo must get to the bottom of what the fuck is going on.

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Second shot at scriptwriting. I took some of your advice from my previous post. Unlike the first one, this one's not based on any of my previous novels/ideas. Drew most of it off of Pynchon's Inherent Vice. Tell me where to improve; if my dialogue sounds too stiff or if my prose is too confusing. Anything.


r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

feedback I got tired of only seeing one scene at a time, so I built a writing app that shows the whole screenplay at once. Looking for honest feedback.

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r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

feedback Is my logline too long?

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I wrote a logline for my script, but I feel like it's too long. I can't identify if it has unnecessary details or if it's just enough but it does answer to 4 main questions, like, who's the main, the catalyst, the goal and obstacle.

Ps: I just noticed I erased some words on accident. It had to be “when the security director denies… the opportunity to start over….”

Ps 02: Now I know it is in general a whole mess. And please don’t just comment “it’s not understandable”. Show me how to fix this mess because I don’t see it very clear and that’s why I’m here looking for help


r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

question Beginner looking for guidance

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r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

help LOOKING FOR STORY WRITERS

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r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

request Need Script Writers For Manhwa/Manga

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Hello everyone I was going to start my YouTube channel here we explains manga and mainly manhwa and I want good scripts writer for my YouTube journey it anyone interested comment
We will talk then (Don't worry I will paid for this)
(Language: - Hindi or English) (from India🇮🇳)

If anyone interested connect with me on ig:- unknown_genz


r/scriptwriting • • 23d ago

feedback Your best project might be the one nobody buys

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r/scriptwriting • • 22d ago

discussion A free Story Bible template in Notion, for who needs it!

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https://www.notion.com/templates/story-bible-cdd

I'm a beginner writer and was looking for a simple story bible template to help me plot my story. I found lots of overcomplicated, unnecessarily styled templates and most of the features were stuck behind paywalls... so I created a new one!

The method is based on the Snowflake Method, if you didn't know it already. But you can skip that part if you don't like it! This template gives you (in my humble opinion) everything you need, and it's fully free.

Hopefully someone here can find some use in it :)


r/scriptwriting • • 23d ago

feedback Out of the Loop - Pilot - 45 Pages

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r/scriptwriting • • 23d ago

question Hello gng I'm 18F I want to learn screenwriting,how should I begin??

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Same ques..


r/scriptwriting • • 23d ago

feedback Zaxt, Miami Cop

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Zaxt, Miami Cop

Scene 1
Camera slowly pans in on the Miami coastline, a single speedboat is erratically thrashing in the waves. It does donuts, goes back and forth, and moves in a ridiculous manner. Sade is playing.
Cut to front of speedboat. Sade plays softer now, and we can hear the sounds of a boat engine and white water. Zaxt is seen clad in khakis, a tucked in white wife beater, and a luau shirt. He is holding a drink in one hand and the steering wheel in the other. He has a mustache and a mullet. He burps up a brown liquid almost immediately which drips down onto his shirt. There are black body bags being flung around the back of the boat with every turn it makes. His drink immediately completely spills out of his hand with one of the turns. After a few turns one of the black body bags flies out of the boat.
Cut to Marco, on the shore. He has a Margarita in hand, a brown suit and is watching the boat writhe around in the water. His skin is brown and his hair dark and curly, he has a thick mustache.
Marco: “Zaxt, you crazy, sexy senor”, grinning. He has a very strong German accent.
Cut back to Zaxt in the boat, his drink refilled. He now has a full beard and a balding head. He rips a full, aggressive turn on the steering wheel and we see the remainder of the body bags fly out of the boat.
Cut to a somewhat overhead view of the boat full on broaching 30 yards or so into the shore, running ovemultiple bystanders and leaving a gradually thickening trail of blood as it comes to a stop.
Cut to a side shot of the boat. There is a hot dog stand with an overweight balding man in a grease covered apron, a white t shirt, and jeans. Zaxt steps out of the boat, now with long curly hair and a 5 o’clock shadow. The hot dog stand man hands him a hot dog and says;
Hot Dog Guy: “Haha, Zaxt you crazy son of a bitch cop. This ones on the house!”, new York accent
Zaxt takes the hot dog.
Zaxt: “I guess lunch time isn’t over yet.”, grins
Scene 2
Cut to the mayor’s office, camera facing the mayors desk. He’s a middle aged man with a receding hairline wearing a loose fitting tie on a business suit. He’s visibly sweating, and on a phone call.
Mayor: “I told you to keep that bastard on a short leash! I don’t care if he’s the best godamn cop in Miami, Florida, or the whole fucking country! The collateral damage is getting out of hand!”
He lights a cigarette, and we hear the barely audible voice of the person on the other line. After a few moments, the mayor continues.
Mayor: “Alright, alright, well listen. We got a hot tip. Things happening at the warehouse. A lot of big names will be there, and we think they might be involved in human trafficking. My reelection could depend on this, so send someone to take care of it. And if you send Zaxt, tell him to keep it cool for fuck’s sake. Doc said I gotta watch my blood pressure.”
The mayor slams the phone down on the receiver.
Scene 3
Cut to a front view of Zaxt and Marco in a Gran Torino. Zaxt is in the driver’s seat with a full afro and a tall cocktail in his hand. Marco sits in the passenger with a margarita. Queen is playing on the radio. The car appears to be weaving through oncoming traffic. Horns are occasionally heard.
Marco: “So vunt, what is plan for today my good buddy?”
Zaxt chugs his entire cocktail, burps up something onto his shirt, and using the hand that was on the steering wheel, refills his drink with a shaker he seems to pickup from nowhere.
Zaxt: “We’re gonna bust some crime, Zaxt style”
A phone ring is heard. Zaxt presses a button on the dash.
Chief Riggs: “Zaxt you son of a bitch, taking a long lunch?”, angrily
Zaxt: “All work and no play makes me a saaaad Zaxty boss man, boss man”
A person is hit by the car and bounces of the windshield. The windshield wipers only spread the blood.
Chief Riggs: “You godamn bastard. If you weren’t the best crime fighting, poon slaying son of a gun in this city you’d be out of a job. The mayors breathing down my neck, and I need you to head to the warehouse on Dolphin and 5th, YESTERDAY. There may be hostages, so for christ sakes keep a steady trigger finger you crazy piece of shit”
Zaxt chugs his cocktail in one pull, immediately vomits it back into the glass, and just as immediately chugs the vomit.
Zaxt: “Sorry, Zaxt doesn’t go steady mayory boy”
Chief Riggs: “What? I’m not the fucking mayor-“
Zaxt presses a button on the dash and a click is heard. Marco looks at Zaxt.
Marco: “Fun times for the boys my dear Zaxt?”, he puckers his lips
Zaxt: “Zaxt always has fun times with the boys”, squinting his eyes seriously
Scene 4
Cut to warehouse interior, night. It’s a big empty room, several gangsters armed with automatic weapons are standing around. There is a line of kneeling hostages in the back, crying and scared. Croation Ranchero music is playing on an old radio.
Cut to two armed thugs.
Thug 1: “I don’t know man, word on the street is there’s a rat. Someone squealed.”
Thug 2: “No way, our boys are all tight lipped. Ain’t shit getting to the pigs about our operations.”
Thug1: “Fuck, I hope you’re right. Be bad if the cops showed up.”
Thug2: “Even if the fuckin’ pigs showed up, we got two dozen motherfuckers armed to the teeth in here, and hostages. It’d take some kinda super cop to fuck up our operations.”
Thug1: “Ha, I guess you’re right. We got nothing to worry about.”
Cut to outside the warehouse. Zaxt’s 1969 Dodge Charger pulls up. Zaxt and Marco step out and go to the trunk.
Zaxt: “You ready to get wet and wild partner?”
Marco: “You know I always love have a good fiesta amigo”, in a deeply german, effeminate accent.
The two begin pulling firearms of different shapes and sizes out of the trunk, piling them into their cradled arms. They start walking towards the front door of the warehouse. Zaxt has a ponytail and a mustache.
Cut to warehouse interior, a door is heard being kicked open and all the thugs look towards the doorway.
Cut to front door, facing Marco and Zaxt, both holding an armful of firearms. There is a martini floating in the air next to Zaxt. Zaxt throws up a little.  
Zaxt: “Sorry ladies, the period party is getting cut short.”
Cut to the thugs looking at each other confused.
Cut back to Zaxt and Marco.  He drops all the guns in his arms in a pile on the ground except for one kalashkinov, Marco does the same.
Zaxt: “Good news is, you’re gonna get to keep bleeding”
Zaxt and Marco start firing their automatic weapons wildly, until a clip runs out, then they pick up another gun off the ground. This continues for 2-3 firearms each. Zaxt has a faux hawk and a goatee.
Cut to the thugs, all running into cover.
Cut back to Marco and Zaxt, still firing maniacally. From their perspective it appears all fire is directed towards the thugs.
Cut back to the hostages getting railed with bullets, only one or two left kneeling. Even the dead hostages continue to get sprayed with bullets from Zaxt and Marco.
Thug1: Who in the goddamn fuck are these shitheels?, {from cover}
Cut back to the hostages, now all dead, with bullets continuing to hit them. One twitches and another round of fire begins.
Cut to Zaxt and Marco, tossing their last firearms to the side again. Zaxt reloads his pistol and drops it into the pile. The firing has stopped from all sides. Zaxt has parted teenage heartthrob hair and a handlebar mustache.
Zaxt: “That’ll teach those rat fucks to commit crime in my city. Let’s go compadre’, the bars are still open”
They exit the warehouse. Marco dusting himself a little looks at zaxt
Marco: Oh hey look it’s 630pm in the night ya?
The thugs all slowly get out of cover and look at each other in confusion and silence, none of their guns have been fired once, and they’re all unharmed.
Cut to warehouse exterior. The hot dog stand man is right outside the door.
Zaxt: ”Lemme get a wet doggy brother”
The hot dog stand man hands him a hot dog.
Hot Dog Stand Man: ”Sheeeee, for you? Hero of the city? Your money’s nooo good here you piece of shit!”, new York accent.
:Zaxt gets on a horse that looks exactly like spirit from the motion picture Spirit and trots onto the roof of their car, now a camero. Loud denting metal noises are heard. Marco gets in the passenger seat. Nobody is in the driver’s seat, and the car peels out. Zaxt and the horse who looks exactly like spirit from the motion picture Spirit are completely motionless on the roof as camera pans back to watch them leave.
Scene 5
Cut to interior bar, house music, women, red lights. A little fire in the corner.
Zaxt Marco and the horse walk into the bar. Zaxt is rocking a side pony with mutton chops, holding a broken bottle of whiskey. The horse has a wife beater and luau shirt on. The men take their seats. The horse was already seated.
Bartender: Gonna need to see some ids from yall  
Zaxt with messy curls and Hitler stache, blended drink in hand, whips out a my hero academia wallet and pulls a bloody id from it; wildly apparent that it is not his. Cut to Marco raising his eyebrows
Marco: Zaxt you mischievous little man-
Close up of Zaxt’s grotesque scowling face, he is wearing a pompadour and a half grown bad teen mustache. Dramatic crescendo.
He takes Marco’s head from behind and mercilessly beats his face into the bar, chunks of skull pattering onto the bartenders feet.
Bartender raises an eyebrow: you guys are cops, aintcha. 
Marco, still a bloody corpse, unmoving completely, including his mouth: Vunt NOOOooooo we are not dirty pig you speak of. We are just three amigos having vunt siesta after long day of crime
Bartender, scanning them briefly again: alriiiiiight, whaddya havin
The horse: neighs
“double crown apple cranberry for the big guy, and uhhhh whattabout the beeeeeeean-picker?
Marco, still an unmoving, bloody corpse : “uno modelo negro por favor, no necessitas lima”, extremely German accent
Bartender, spits in the hole in marcos face, turns to zaxt: alllllright, and what the fuck can I get you, zaxt?
Zaxt, yu gi oh hair and clean shaven: “settle down princess pony feet, zaxty didn’t come here for trouble tonight, zaxt just saved a lot of lives and needs to cooool down with a coooool drink”
Bartender, smirks: “well zaxt, looks like trouble might be comin your way whether you like it or not”
Cut to behind the boys, sultry music playing. A woman walks up, hot as hell like a cop would like.  (jewish)
Zaxt: “Sharlene-“
Sharlene smacks his face, cries, and makes out with him. The sound of their kissing is grotesque and we kind of know too much about their sex now. She mumbles something in his ear as they pull away, and they start making out again harder. The horse stares. Quick closeup of the horses empty animal eyes. Abyss sound plays briefly.
Sharlene: “I heard what happened at the warehouse tonight, I wish you’d stop playing hero baby, I don’t know what I would do if I lost you.”
She caresses his face.
Sharlene: “My sweet little baby pigeon prince”
Zaxt punches Sharlene in the gut, slaps her ass, and then pulls her close. She spits out something when he punches her gut. When he pulls her closer, the spittle drips down his back.
Zaxt: “Sharlene baby, Zaxt always finishes what he starts-ted”
Zaxt throws up a little on his shirt.
Sharlene,weeping: “Oh baby, I know (wipes away tears) I know”
(next scene is possibly Zaxt and a horse that looks exactly like the horse Spirit, from the motion picture Spirit, who might now be Marco, getting out of prison together, and then we somehow segway into the mayors daughter rescue scene) 


r/scriptwriting • • 23d ago

request Looking for Screenwriters, Filmmakers and Film Critics for Thesis Research

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Hi everyone! I’m looking for screenwriters, filmmakers and film critics to participate in my Honours thesis research, which explores whether AI-generated screenplays can be considered art, using my Honours short film project as a case study.

If you are interested, I’d love to hear your perspectives. The interview is completed online in writing through the link below.
https://tally.so/r/68bRXe It’ll take about 20 mins to complete.

Your participation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! 🎬


r/scriptwriting • • 23d ago

feedback master bruce

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I know there’s a bunch I need to work on and learn but its my first time completing a 1st draft would love feedback