How Do You Write A Short Movie Script?
“Hi, I’m Jared Drake and I’m going to talk to you about writing a short script for a movie. You know short films, the budgets tend to be very, very small and you need all, you need to give yourself all the best chances of getting finance as possible so keep the locations to a minimum, keep the characters to a minimum, keep the visual effects, the special effects, all that to a minimum. Short films they tend to say are 40 minutes or less. Most short film makers they make the film with the intention of going to film festivals. Film festivals, although they accept movies, most accept movies that are up to 40 minutes long or even 50 minutes long, it’s very, very difficult for film festivals to program shorts that are that long, generally what film festivals have for short films is they have blocks of time that they’ve set apart. Maybe they have an hour and a half blocks of time set apart for short films, they have four of those so they have four hour and a half blocks of time that they’ve
