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Learn How To Become A Professional Screenwriter - Brooks Elms

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How to Write a Movie Scene in a Dramatic Style

Most movies will have about forty scenes you know plus or minus five or ten or whatever so I want to get a sense of all expand those fifteen beats to like the forty scenes. The audience is absolutely craving a pretty beginning middle and they're craving your your break into act two to happen someplace around 25-27 minutes. So it's totally fine to sort of go against their expectations but I want to do it mindfully or it's an opportunity to go huh I'm breaking into two I act at page 35  is there something I can call? "I often put them on index cards and I'm bored in my my home office"

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