![]() ![]() I GUARANTEE YOU every single executive in Hollywood who read that first page would read the second. Is she going to walk down the stairs? Hang on that question for as long as possible.Įven if she didn’t start the walk down the stairs, that’s still a great first page. We highlight how delicate Rose is, how she would crumble if she fell. She gets to the stairs, looks down them with a sense of confusion and fear. Rose is up and walking along the second-floor hallway, looking out of it. Maybe the opening shot is on Lea and her “Registered Dementia Specialist” tag asleep in a chair. Why would you have them walk UP that staircase with help when you could have them walk DOWN that staircase with no help? Isn’t that a scarier more suspenseful scenario? Well, we have an old person with dementia. But taking that out of the equation, how could we have made this opening page better? I just want to share with you what a reader looks at as he’s reading a first page.īefore we rethink this scene, I want to acknowledge that maybe something earth-shattering happens on page 2. Me featuring these has no bearing on their potential inclusion in the showdown. With that in mind, I’m going to give you two first page entries. I mean, how many times have you seen readers of this site give up on first pages in the Showdowns? 17 million? Does a great slow-build page 7 climax matter if they never get past the first page? For this reason, you should seriously consider reworking your first scene so that it has a great first page. I also realized from this exercise just how crucial it is to grab the reader right away. I actually think slow-build scenes work better than scenes that shock you from the outset. There isn’t anything wrong with writing a slow-build first scene. I knew that, in one case specifically, even though the first page was mundane, the scene itself would build to a fun climactic moment on page 7. What’s interesting about this is that, in a few of the cases, I’d already read the entire script. For example, there are a lot of submissions where a murder has just taken place. Other writers re-thought their first scene to allow for the best first page possible. ![]() Some writers had sent in whatever first page was already in their script. Where: e-mail all entries to I’ve begun to read through the first page submissions, I noticed something. Send in: Title, Genre, Logline, and a PDF of the first page of your scriptĭeadline: Thursday, September 21st, 10:00pm Pacific Time You send me the first page of your script, I put the best five first pages up on the site, the readers of the site vote for their favorite, the winner gets a script review the following Friday.Ĭan you follow in the success of the wonderful Wayward Son? Only way to find out is to enter! Instead of doing a Logline Showdown this month, we are doing a FIRST PAGE SHOWDOWN. We check out two First Page Entries and glean what it takes to write a great first page. ![]()
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