I was wondering, since script formats assure that each page should be around one minute, how do you assess this? I feel like my scripts are pretty dense in that I don't get wordy or give details that don't matter. I feel like my 102 page script would be a two and a half hour film... Maybe I'm over exaggerating.
The minute a page figure is an overall average. It doesn't mean and has never meant that every single page should time out to be a minute long.
That obviously doesn't make any sense. Some pages of a script might include a major battle scene that could take five minutes. Others might consist of a handful of brief dialogue exchanges that could take twenty seconds.
It's the overall length, the average of the dense pages and the thin pages that tends to result in the minute per page figure.
And yes -- inevitably some scripts are going to be on the thin side and some on the dense side, but there's nothing you can really do about it other than to write the script.
For instance, the recent, ALL IS LOST, which contains essentially no dialogue was only 31 pages long, but it's 31 pages that's all action.
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