movie script help

[Element Lord]

i plan on turning one of my unpublished books into a movie script and sending it to the guys that made dawson's creek (they are only about 6 hours from my house). so anyway, ive been looking at some other movie scripts and i was wondering, does anybody know what the int and the ext before setting names is? like in independance day it say something like:

EXT. the pentagon

or something like that. little help please?

[Laguna Loire]

You're about as old as me, according to your profile, and thinking of seriously sending a movie script to some real directors or writers or whatever? What makes you think they'll do a movie on it? Way too young, even if you are good at English...I'm pretty good at English, but even I know that any of my stories would never be published...Not at my age anyway...

But anyway, I havn't got much of a clue what you're talking about really...

[Invader_gir]

ext is exterrior (sorry, cant spell right)
like... outside where the scene is based

int is interior ..
basicly the same but inside

[Shadowfax]

Good luck, but I doubt that you will be able to get it published and made.

Your script has to be very good in order to sell. Everything has to be considered, such as dynamic characters, and elements of surprise, and advoid the huge amount of pitfalls many writers fall into.

[Element Lord]

thanks for the encouragement everybody. The sad thing is that i figured it out like 30 minutes after i posted that. and yu know, it doesn't matter wether or not they publish it because because I had fun writing it. so there. :P

[wil]

probaly would have been a good movie

[Element Lord]

AAAAAAAAAH! Will you all stop being so negative all of the time? But now that i think about it, i think that you are probly right and i have a plan. I will put my dad's name so that it seems that he wrote it. he gets the credit and i get the cash.

[DayleJ]

no idea....really

i suggest you buy the book: raindance writer's lab - write + sell the hot screenplay

cuz not bein negative more realistic, you hav no idea and need all the help you can get. and how can i make a judgement like this? well thats because its wot i am doing at uni this year...writing screenplays

[Shadowfax]

http://www.screenwriting-on-the-net.com/

Haven't bought it, but it seems to be a good guide.

BTW, Element. I doubt it matters who wrote it. (actually it has nothing to do with it) It matters what's in it. How you describe the camera angles. How you show surprise. How you develop characters using only dialogue and actions.

[Laguna Loire]

thanks for the encouragement everybody. The sad thing is that i figured it out like 30 minutes after i posted that. and yu know, it doesn't matter wether or not they publish it because because I had fun writing it. so there. :P

Well, in that case, as long as you have fun, then it doesn't matter whether it gets published...

[Element Lord]

finally somebody makes sense.