: Re: Recommendations for short film script I would like to take a part in screenplay competition. The main goal is a script for a short film (8 - 10 minutes). I have several questions about it:

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There is a very strict standard format for screenplays, designed so that each written page of the script will take approximately 1 minute of screen time. The formatting is different for action and dialog in order to maintain the page/time ratio no matter what the content. So, if you follow the format, a script for an 8 minute movie will "magically" be 8 pages long.
screenwriting.io/what-is-standard-screenplay-format/
This is not long, so your story should probably be simple and to-the-point rather than detailed and complex. The following link is to a site that posts examples of scripts for short films:
www.simplyscripts.com/original-short-scripts.html

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