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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd
I've been playing around with screenwriting as a hobby for a while now. In the last month I started to write my first feature-length script. I've got three major characters, each with a complete character arc mapped out from start to finish, and I've got the major events planned, but there's a problem. After putting pen to paper (so to speak), my "feature-length" script is roughly 50 pages. Typically a feature of this nature is more like 120 pages (at ~1 minute per page).
Soooo now I'm like, wha'd I do wrong? Is it possible to get to the point too quickly in a story? Am I destined to write for television rather than film? Am I missing some kind of subplot to resolve in Act II?
I lost the motivation to finish it after realizing there was something fundamentally wrong in my structure and pacing for it to be so short.
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I feel like the way you paced that is based off of watching UK tv series. They usually blow through things and have a super fast pacing because their series are like 6 episodes each kind of thing.
So if you want to do that type of pacing for a full length then you just have to flesh out and shove more things in to make up for the length. Act II most likely needs to be drawn out more.