I am having trouble getting my treatment(synopsis) of my script down to 500 words. Currently, it is at 945. The story itself was 58k words or so. I wonder: will I be frowned upon if I sent in a treatment that is longer than 500 words, OR will someone take the work into account, for what it contains, not a few "format errors", (after all, I AM a first-timer at this, with ABSOLUTELY no training in this)
My log line is :what was meant to protect the Earth, now threatens it's survival.
I have a little training in script writing, though I haven't finished one myself. Working slowly on that.
Editing is one of the toughest and most heartbreaking parts of moviemaking. It's also one of the most essential. A story I heard once: editor and director are in the cutting room. The editor says, "we should cut that scene." The director desperately fights it at first. He even says, "when I read that scene in the script, that was the moment I knew I could make this picture!" But he resigned that the editor was right. The scene was removed.
102 Earth Standard Years ago, resistance fighters won a hard fought war of independence against the Eastern Alliance, battering them and driving the few survivors into the depths of uncharted space, and establishing the Colonial Federation in the process. The Colonial Federation eventually became the pinnacle of civilization and a beacon of freedom. Settlements were built and the warmth of liberty spread throughout space. Just days after a corporate survey ship jumped into the supposedly uncharted Epsilon Ceti system, the news came that the Eastern Alliance not only survived, but had established itself as a formidable military power complete with a vast army of genetically enhanced soldiers and an equally formidable navy. The "Commonwealth" as it now called itself wasted no time in initiating hostilities by backing insurgents and using nano-virus weapons against Colonial Federation worlds, killing millions in days. Their goal is the extermination of those who live on and around what they call 'the sacred planet.' All that stands between freedom and extinction is a rogue A.I., a squad of Marines and their dropship pilot.