Great job!! Great content. Another way to do this is to use CELTX tagging and then it creates the reports for you. Including 1/8's and so on. CELTX is 100% free as well. So it's quite FRUGAL
This was his last Twitter entry... The Frugal Filmmaker @frugalfilmmaker Aug 1 Time to get back on that horse... ---------- I can't check his Facebook as I am not already a member. I requested membership, but it has to be approved before you can see his FB page. So, a bit of a catch22 OK I'm sure we'll know something soon enough.
Yeah, one page is generally one minute for all narrative scrips as far as I know. So yeah 7.5 sec per 1/8. The 1/8's really come into play when you're making a schedule. It's needed to be more precise. Film scheduling goes like this: 1 script page roughly equals one minute of screen time. This obviously varies when there’s stunts, special effects, car explosions, or really heavily emotional/physically draining on the cast content. Script pages are typically 8 inches long Each inch of a page is 1/8th of a page. To determine the length of a scene, the scene in the script is measured out by how many inches of the page it takes up. A scene that is 5/8ths would be 5 inches out of 1 full script page. In screen time, that would be just over half a minute. usually scheduling is done by location, so if you have multiple scenes that take place in different parts of the screenplay at the same location--you can accurately set the number of days at that location. 120/8s at location "A" would be 15 pages or three days at that location. based on the 5 pages a day rule. You can see if at that location you had one scene that was 3/8's and another scene that was 30/8's and other scenes how the 1/8ths of a page would be useful. Usually on big productions the 1st AD does the Script Breakdown, and also is a major contributor to the schedule.
