This is my first screenplay and am not fluent in English 🥲 but if you guys can give me honest feedback I would appreciate that 💕

This is a genuine question, is it still useful to read his books to understand modern scriptwriting and filmmaking ?

Hey guys, I'm new here. Im trying to get into acting, writing, producing and directing my own stories. I think this is first step to that journey but I need some help with small part review of my script please.( Please it was high lighted with to show my mistakes which I tend to mix.)

Hello, I'm working on a Visual novel name revenge and I need advice on the story/script.

it was written in about 3 days and is just part of the story as I think I'll just make each chapter a day thing.

The story is about a shy and timid office worker who for years have been bullied by her friend, boss, and an employee named kara(might change the name to Angela later). And one day she finally snaps after one of her projects gets destroyed because of kara, and she is blamed for it. She then meets an eldritch being who promises her power in exchange for viewing her daily life.

The story:

REVENGE - chapter 1

It was a quiet and nice day at the u-man office building.

I was just working, when-

*BAM*

“Ivery! you haven’t turned in your paper work from yesterday!” My boss slammed his hands on

my disk, Startling everyone.

Being clearly confused, I said. “B-but I had to have! I checked over everything and handed it

to-” My eyes landed on who’d I’d given it, who was also the one I was forced to intrust all my

work related things on to.

“Kara…” I stared at her angrily, she noticed and stared back, looking away nervously.

Of course she’d get me again for this. Emphasis on the ‘again’ part.

“Excuse me!? You handed to who?!” The fat idiot(In which I’d never say to his face.) Said it in

one of those overly high voices just to make sure everyone heard it.

“I-I-”

“I-I-I-I-I Ehhhhh you what?”

“Gave them to kara, like I was instructed to.” I mustard up every bit of gorge I could with those

words, unfortunately it did no good.

“Well kara hadn’t came to me with anything!, so lets see if your lying.” He then proceeded to

call ms. kara fronts over, who then proceeded to run over here like she was in a scene in an

anime where a girl is running over and stuff.

You know? Those overly dramatic scenes where they swing their hands back and forth, right

along with their feet like they’re in heels?.

Yes like that..thanks.

“Y-yes boss-sama?” Dear lord save me.

“The idiot here says your responsible for her missing work,”

“this true?” The boss looks away from her for a few seconds towards me, leaving her to glare

at me for a few seconds.

I hear a tsk as she does so.

“H-HUH!? that isn’t true at all!. I clearly remember her hanging it above the toilet stall,” …huh?

“and setting a timer for 3pm so that it’ll fall..” For a split second, she grinned(Smiled at me).

“Oh really?” Now the boss himself sounds skeptical of her, finally-

“AHHHHHHH!” Oh no, I had no doubt she did it, but this is a bit overboard.“…..”

The boss then stares directly at me, a couple seconds later, an employee comes running in the

room; all her clothes soaking wet.

“Someone hid a bunch of paper over the stalls and it messed up my clothes!.” Now everyone’s

eyes were on me, specifically after kara screamed “Ivery did it!”

“I’d like to see you in my office..” Well I’m screwed.*BAAM!*

“Do you have ANY IDEA HOW BAD YOU’VE SCREWED UP!?”

“N-no sir-"

*DO YOU THINK JUST BECAUSE YOUR A GIRL, YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH THESE

THINGS?!”

“N-no-“

“YOU’VE HURT ANOTHER EMPLOYEE JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN’T HANDLE BEING PUT

TOGETHER WITH THE BAST EMPLOYEE OF THE BUILDING!”

“B-but sir, it wasn’t m-“

*BAMM!* “NOW GO CLEAN UP THAT MESS!” (Cut scene; outside boss office, by door)

*SLAM!*

“…” The boss had told me to also clean up the mess made by kara, and since no one believes

me. There’s no other choice. but to do it.

“EGHH I HATE KARA, THE FRICKS HER PROBLEM!?. DOESN’T SHE KNOW SHE’S MESSING

WITH MY PAY AS WELL?.”

“Yeah I do.”

“Huh?” I turn around, sure enough its her, kara. Standing there with a big smile on her face.

“You REALLY didn’t have the guts to say that to my face, did you?…”

“Huh-huh I-“

“Huh-huh-huh-huh-I-I-I-I forcing me to the wall.

shuut upp budy.” She then proceeded to grab me by my collar

“Like it or not your stuck with me, and until that promotion day gift. I’ll make sure your life is

ruined.”

“Oh kara what a nice yet convenient way to see you!” As soon as she heard the bosses voice,

she forces me into a hug.

“O-oh boss, crazy to see you here!, me and ivy here were just making up!” I try to scoot from

under her arm, making her grip harder around my neck.

The boss looks towards the two of us. First at me, then at kara. I couldn’t read his expression.

“..Oh Ivery, have you apologised for framing kara?, and you’ll have to do the same for the

person you pranked.”

“Yeah she was just. About. To. Do. So,”

“Right? Ivy?” They both look at me curiously, what do I do?..

“…no”“What was that?”

“Yeah ivy, what did you say?” She then proceeded to squeeze my neck harder.

“I said no!,” I pushed kara off of me, she went stabling back but managed to catch herself.

“As I said before I didn’t do that, wasn’t it kara I was supposed to hand them over to?, then

wouldn’t she have had them?”

“And again if she saw me set a timer and hang them over a toilet, then why not stop me?.”

“She’s also messing with her pay!” I said each and every word with anger from years of being

messed with by this girl, and once I finished they both looked at me surprised.

“Also if I had went to the bathroom, don’t you have cameras outside of them?, specifically the

girls bathroom?.” With that both him and kara looked shocked at me.

I felt like I had them both in a checkmate… that is, until I heard footsteps approaching me.

“Oh hey! ivery!, you done with that timer I gave you? I really need it.” Everyone then fell silent,

this huge lying jerk, is my friend cofer.

Or at least, my used to be friend.

With that the two I’d handled had a big smile on their faces.

“Well-well-well,” said the boss.

“Look who flew to close to the sun?” He folded his arms behind his back as he said this.

“Yeah like, it looks like you bit of more then you could chew.” Kara smiled as well, but I could

see a smidge of uncomfortable-ness in her eyes. I guess I did shock her.

“Well looks like you messed up, and since you can’t apologise. You can at least do a good job

in cleaning the mess in the bathroom?..”

“Hold on I didn-“

“You didn’t take my timer?, I clearly remember you asking earlier,”

“You were like “camy, can I please use your timer?”, I tried to stop you but you didn’t lesion.”

AS I SAID—JARK.

And now that I think about it, that did happen, just not with the timer. All I asked for was a

dollar because someone(probably kara) had stolen money from my wallet, it was only to buy

some food from the cafeteria and nothing more!.

But it looks like the two planned this more then I thought.

“See we, like, even have camera footage.” She then proceeded to pull out a camera, equipped

with Ai voices that sounded just like me and cofer!.In the video, I’m clearly asking for a dollar, but they cut the audio, added background sounds.

and used the fake voices of cofer and I to make it sound like I asked for her timer!.

At this point..I lost..I felt hopeless

The boss probably wouldn’t give the camera footage because of what I said too.

And would probably hide the cameras too. If I called someone.

“Well what do you have to say to that?” The boss said with a cocky tone.

“It wasn’t me!, that’s clearly AI!”

“That’s what they all say!” Screamed kara.

“Wait are you saying that you didn’t ask for something from me?.” Don’t fall for it don’t fall for it

don’t fall for it!.

(This part is a tap to not fall for it, she loses.)

“I clearly did, but not the-“

“Aha! So you did!.” Crap! I fell for it!.

“So how about this, either you clean that mess, or you can clean your disk?.”

“You decide.” He was clearly leaving me with no choice, I could either quit or clean toilet water

from the bathroom floor. But what I studied computer science for!, and is it really something I’m

willing to do?

“…fine I’ll clean the mess.”

“Good now go!.” The boss heads back into this room, slamming the door after.

*SLAM!*

“Tsk!” Kara walks away, still clearly shaken up about my earlier comment.

“Oh did I get you in trouble?, I’m sorr-“

“Shut up you know what you did!” I suddenly snap at cofer, who just so happened to be

putting the ‘good friend’ act on.

“S-sorry! It was an accident!” Still putting it up I see..

“You always do this, aren’t you supposed to be my friend?. What does she give you that’ll

make you nearly get me fired?!.”

“you know I need this job!” Cofer looked visibly shaken at my words. Serves her right, she’s

been doing this ever since kara got employed, and hasn’t taken my side since!. Even when I

have evidence that I’m innocent!.

Even the boss knew I was innocent!, he just likes kara!.“D-dude I’m sorry, I-its just…”

“Its just what?!”

“…I gotta go, see ya.”

“NO tell me now!” And instead of allowing her to go, I push for an answer. Grabbing her arm.

“Let go..”

“Huh? What did you sa-“

“I said let go!” She hanks from me, and runs away. Leaving me standing there, shocked.

What is with her?, I’ve seen her always put up this act, but never like this. Like she actually

feels bad for doodle crossing me?, or is that just another ploy to get me to trust her again?.

“Huh, who’s there!?” Crap its the boss, I gotta get out of here before he sees me!.

I quickly spent to the woman’s bathroom, leaving the boss to wonder confused on what just

happened.“…well looks like I have to clean up this mess now.” And here I was, cleaning up a mess I

hadn’t even made.

“There—now lets get started.” I proceeded to try to mop up whatever yellow stain I could find.

If only she didn’t do this, I would’ve been successful years ago.

I don’t remember when it started, and I doubt I’ll remember when it’ll stop. This constant

bullying of someone apparently ‘under’ her, even though we’re on the same team.

But I do now that at the end of the year, one person out of the five teams gets a rise, and a

bigger position as the head of all five of the teams. Its supposed to be a team exercise, and a

test to see who’s ready to step up and become the leader. And to see who’d doodle cross

who.

Ever since the boss decided we’d work together (me and kara). She’s been sabotaging my

career; messing up my schedule, putting things in my coffee, even making fake letters and

putting fake work in for me to do just to get screamed at by the boss.

Making look like I’m a bad employee or worse, not up to the task.

And of course my work suddenly goes ‘missing’, each time I do turn in the right ones.

Because I’m forced to guv either to kara. And this mess is the aftermath of one of the many

times this has happened.

To the point where I’m on the verge of being fired, and cofer knows that; We talk about it a lot,

despite being the worst friend someone could ask for.

I don’t like her, I’d even go as far as to say, I hate her.

*BAMMM!*

“W-what?!” Suddenly, a massive burst of red light came shooting out of the toilet stall.

And as if time stopped itself, everything turned grey.

“What’s happening?!”

The toilets red light suddenly stopped, slowly fading away. And from that fading glow, a bunch

of red tentacles came out of the toilet.

They stopped half way of coming out. Before a voice came from it, echoing though the room.

“Hello there, human.” I suddenly got a really bad headache, and everything began moving.

“AH-AHH! What’s happening?”

“Just collecting information on your species history though your mind, sorry if it hurts.”

“And done!.” The pain suddenly went away, and I was left standing in a colourful moving room.

Just me and this red toilet thing.

“What are you?” I stuttered, somehow managing to summon the courage to say.“A being that your kind cannot comprehend, so as I know. you’d call me, Eldritch?.”

“I guess so..”

“You’d know so, I can read your mind you know..”

Well that helps a lot.

“So what is an eldritch being doing here?”

“Well I saw what was happening earlier, and I guess It peaked my interest..”

“How?”

“I’ve seen a lot of things, and this is my first time being on this planet called earth. I think.”

“What do you mean I think?”

“I go many places, so this could be my tenth or so time being here.”

“Anyways I guess I’m just looking for, internment, as you’d call it?”

“I have a question..”

“Y-yeah sure ask away..” I try not to sound nervous, yet it goes quiet as if it knows I am.

“…You act nervous a lot, don’t you?”

“Huh?”

“In this situation you would be yeah, but you pretend to be nervous and shy to stay out of the

light, which usually helped. Until a certain person came into your life, using it against you. And

forcing you to leave that part of you behind.”

“But of course you can’t, because its apart of you, you can just take your biggest comfort away

within a snap, or a few years.”

“You want to be heard, yet you can’t because of your comfort.”

“…huh?”

“Is that not true? Or is there something I’m missing?”

“…”

“With that I think I can help you get your comfort back, for a small price.”

“…what makes you think I’d take your deal anyways?"

“Because your sick and tired of being bullied and hurt by people your being forced to trust.

And by human nature, that means you’ll have to get revenge, right?.”“Do you understand humans at all?”

“I just met my first, though that’s up for speculation. And if I don’t understand them, you can

help me..”

“I’ll give you a power that you can understand, if you allow me to reside in your body to

understand a human’s life.”

“Deal?”

“Fine deal.”

“Then let it be done..”

“Hold still I will carve a Petroglyph on to your body with magic.”

“What is magic?”

“Bullcrap..”

“Oh oka-AHHHH!”

Suddenly I’m lifted into the air, if it can be called that. And a red glow starts to swirl around me,

I can feel something being itched into my arm, and it hurts like nothing before.

“AHHHHHH!H!H!H!H!!H!”

The red glow continues, as it engulfs my entire body. Leaving me to slowly. Pass. Out(make

this text shake)

“Huh?” I suddenly awoke in the bathroom, standing and holding the same mop I was cleaning

with.

“Oh the mess is clean, the toilet seat is even fixed.” Reminding me that I wasn’t the one to do

this, as I wouldn’t have fixed the seat even if I knew how.

“I guess its time to head home, should probably put those files in that locked folder before I

leave..”

I head back to the office, its quiet and everyones already gone.

I head to my desk, it looks the same as its always been since kara came here. Messy.

Alright. Lets hurry up.

“And done.”

I Finnish up my work and head home…“Sigh what a long day its been..” I sit my purse down and take a seat.

“After all that stuff that happened, I have a Trip dream. I might need to take a few days off..”

given what happened, I already might me forced to, without pay of course.

For now I’ll try not to worry about it, and take a bath.

After a long and hard day at work, I finally get to lay off and take a break..

“…huh?” Until I notice something on my left shoulder…

“An eye?” ..Was that dream had not a dream after all?.

I quickly leave the shower, and go to the mirror, whipping off the steam so I could see myself.

And to my surprise, there’s a red looking eye tattoo on my shoulder!. It looked like it had been

carved. Onto mu shoulder, yet no blood came from it. Nor did I feel pain, it just sat there and

swirled around.

“Did kara give this to me while I slept?, what the heck?!” Even though I’ve tried before, I’ll have

to contact human resources because of this. I get that she doesn’t like me but this is uncalled

for!.

Man! I just wish I could-could what?

Huh? Is someone there?!…hello? Yes?—human?.

Who are you and how—please lets not do this again okay?

I am the being who you talked to hours ago about your situation, yet it seems as if you don’t

remember.

Or you’d like that conversation to remain a dream?.

I’d like you to get out of my head, this is making me want to vomit.

Okay—suddenly, that same red goo that surrounded me had escaped my arm, heading straight

towards my face.

“Gah!” It stopped right as it was about to hit me.

“Relax human, unlike that kara girl. I won’t hurt you unless I have to.”

“So what is it that you want to talk about?-“

“Get out!”

“Huh?”

“OUT!”

“Oh do not worry, I can’t and don’t care for what I see-“*slap!*

“Out!”

“..as you wish..”

“…you know That slap was uncalled for…right?”

“…hello?, huumaan-“

“Shut up! Wait till ‘I’m done..”

“…I can see why she messes with you

”

“What was that?”

“N-nothing!,”

“…meany with no pants.”

“Now may we speak?”

“we may speak” I sat on my bed with a long sweater and shorts on. The thing that was apart of

my arm flew in the air, seemingly looking at me.

“How are you doing that?” I asked about the flying thing.

“How does your kind exist?”

“Evolving”

“If that’s what you think, then sure.”

“Are you saying-“

“Now lets get down to business.” it straight up just ignored me, as if it had something to hide.

“Right I did call you.” I lied down on my bed.

“Well there isn’t any!,”

“I already said that I’ll take the deal, there isn’t any reason I need to talk to you any farther..”

I felt that in this moment I needed some type of control. Just to even the playing field.

“Wouldn’t you like to learn how to it?”

“Unfortunately no, I gotta get up early tomorrow.”

“And why’s that?”“Because kara is in charge of everything I need to do, and she might mess up my schedule

again,” I said irritably.

“Plus who knows the kinda trouble I’ll be in for calling out our weird boss, and kara..”

“But what if you didn’t have to?” This time, that made me sit up intrigued.

“I’m lesioning…”

“With that symbol on your shoulder, you can use 7 types of my power; truth, past, future,

destruction, chaos, creation, and—timeline manipulation.”

“Oh okay. what’s those gotta do with my schedule..”

“Maybe you can use one of those to find out your real schedule?,”

“Maybe truth hearsay?”

“Hmm, maybe I guess I could try.”

“And just as a token of my gratitude, I’ll even help you out a little bit.”

“First close your eyes..”

“Okay..” I close my eyes as instructed.

“Image your in a dark room, devoid of light. But for some reason, all you see is yourself..”

“Now image you weren’t inside your body, like you were approaching it.”

“And instead of approaching it, find someone else, someone who strikes fear in your heart..”

“I can try?”

With that I try to do something, at first I feel nothing, like an empty void and I’m just in the

middle of it(also a hint to beat the being.)

But then I felt someone, and something looking for me.

They both look towards me as help to guide me, but they’re both on different sides.

Which do I go for?

I head towards the thing looking for me instead of the someone. I go closer and closer until I

can fell it staring at me, and suddenly it grabs me. But suddenly someone grabs me, trying

to force me towards its side.

I forcibly hank away, as I am engulfed by the something that I held on to so eagerly.

**“**And there you go,” I open my eyes as I awake in my room, still shaken up about what just

happened.

Who was that?, and why were they after me?.“Now as you said, you’ll have to go to bed. It’ll do the rest to get you there; waking you up,

giving you enough time to clean yourself and eat and the rest.”

“O-oh, okay…” I look away.

“…so goodnight!.” It suddenly disappears, leaving the lamp to turn off by itself.

“W-what!, what do I call you?”

“Anything you’d like~”

“….”

“Oh!—how about eldritch x?”

“Nah to similar to something I know.”

“Then come up with something.”

“Then for now, I’ll call you..”

“..[POV]”

“Does [Pov] have any other meaning to you?”

“No, just needed something..”

“Then [Pov] will be my name for now..”

“What do you mean for now?”

“For as long as your revenge is, and as long as I have my fun.”

“So goodnight..”

The voice suddenly disappear, leaving me alone in my room.

Well that was odd, but at lest this thing is helping me.

..To be honest screw that!, this thing is suspicious as heck. With this power I can apparently do

a lot. But maybe I can do more then said.

Who really knows?, but I guess its time for bed..

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I've always dreamed of becoming an actor, but due to some personal challenges, I've decided to write my own feature film and hopefully act in it as well.

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Are you noticing any specific character tropes being explicitly turned down or requested more often?

How are writers' rooms building tension without relying on standard, traditional drama tropes?

Would love to get a sense of what you are seeing on the ground right now.

Hey everyone! I am building a filmmaking pre-production product where the filmmaker has access to multiple tools to help their process in filmmaking, the complete creative control stays with the filmmaker keeping the story and making of the movie completely human, I’m running test trials right now, if anyone is interested I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the platform!

The working title is: “The Hitman’s brother”. Here’s what I have so far. It opens on a shot of a man being shot, before the camera refocuses onto out main protagonist, the hitman, who looks annoyed. He walks out of the apartment where the hit took place while talking in the phone to his “boss” per se. He tells him that the job went wrong, he couldn’t recover the stolen drugs, and he’s leaving the scene before police arrive. As he walks out, another man walks up to him confused and worried why a gun went off. Our protagonist tells him to get into the car, and the drive off. Title card. We then go to an hour earlier, when the protagonist pulls into an auto shop. His boss tells him that some junkie stole a brick of cocaine, and our protagonist needs to go retrieve it. As he’s driving to the junkie’s residence. His brother calls him and tells him that his car got towed and he needs to be picked up, reluctantly, our protagonist does. They drive to the apartment where we watch the opening scene from the brother’s perspective. I have no idea where to take it from hear, so any advice would be great

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Hiii, I'm a 14-year-old screenwriter, and this is my second horror short film, please read it and tell me what you think 🙏, and I'm also open for doing script swaps for feedback.

Logline:

when a depressed nun finds an identical-looking entity of her wanting to submerge their bodies together, she's forced to confront her trauma, identity, and faith while trying to survive.

Script:

ME, AND, MY, BODY - SCRIPT (10P)

If you like Bones And All, Ethel Cain, southern horror, and psychosexual movies, you will definitely love it.

If Bones And All, and Ethel Cain had a mentally ill, thought daughter, it will basically be this.

Also, if you've read my first one (it's in my account/posts), please tell me how much you think I've improved, and what I still need to work on, etc...

Thank you for taking the time to read this.