How To Impress A Script Reader - Part 1
Friday 26th June 2015
1: Get your laughs in EARLY.
You need to orientate your reader/viewer immediately whatever genre you're working in and comedy is no different.
If it's meant to be funny, we're not going to wait until Page 2 for the first comic moment. You need to grab us with the comic style of the piece in your opening scene.
Hayley McKenzie is a film and TV script editor and the founder of Script Angel, dedicated to nurturing screenwriting talent. She's written about what she thinks helps a script make the screenwriting contest cut
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