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The idea: “A broke dog walker finds a bag with two million dollars in it.”

What does she do with the money?

Keeps itPays off everything. Then someone notices.
Gives it backTracks down the owner. Big mistake.
Splits itWith her two best friends. Now three people have a secret.
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INT. MAYA’S APARTMENT — NIGHT

A studio held together by duct tape and dog hair. Six leashes on a hook. A FINAL NOTICE taped to the fridge.

MAYA (29) drops a muddy gym bag on the kitchen table and unzips it.

Two million dollars in banded hundreds.

She tears the FINAL NOTICE off the fridge. Peels off one hundred. Then another.

MAYA

Finders keepers.

She laughs. Then she closes the blinds.

A KNOCK at the door.

Meet Brad.

Your script consultant. He reads every page, and he has notes.

I have notes.

  • A note

    The opening is all mood. Give Nora a reason to look twice at that photograph on page one.

  • Continuity

    You made the photographer Nora’s grandfather. Scene 4 still has them meeting for the first time.

  • Milestone

    Act I is on the board.

    The trap is set. Nobody gets to go home now.

Meet your cast.

Characters on cards you can shape.

The Long Exposure

Example

Story synopsis

Detective Nora Vance finds the same man in a grey overcoat behind the police tape in 1974 and again this morning. With archivist Ollie Reyes she learns that every photograph he appears in was taken exactly seven days before someone died. When he turns up in a picture of her own precinct, Nora has a week to learn who the warning is for, and whether a person can step out of the frame.

  • Nora Vance

    Protagonist

    Homicide detective, forty-four. Photographs every scene herself and has never once missed a face.

  • Ollie Reyes

    Supporting

    County archivist, sixty-eight, retiring on Friday. Knows where every file is buried and most of the reasons why.

  • The Man in the Grey Coat

    Antagonist

    Never older, never closer. He appears only through a lens, and only seven days early.

See the whole story.

Acts, scenes, and beats in one outline.

The Long Exposure

Example

  1. Act I

    1. 1Two Photographs
    2. 2Seven Days

  2. Act II

    1. 3The Precinct Photo

      He appears in a picture of Nora’s own squad room.

      • A squad-room group shot
      • He is standing behind Nora
    2. 4The Photographer

  3. Act III

    1. 5Overexposed
    2. 6The Last Frame

Start with your idea

You make every call.

Nothing lands until you approve it.

You asked: Have him look into the lens.

Approved

Example

INT. COUNTY ARCHIVE — NIGHT

One is stamped 1974. The other was taken this morning.

In the back of both: the same MAN in a grey overcoat. Proposed: Both times, he’s looking straight into the lens.

Every scene, to the last page.

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The last page of another sample screenplay in Scriptsolo’s Script editor, ending with FADE TO BLACK.
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    Walk back through your creative changes as whole story changes, not single keystrokes.

  • Lock what’s finished

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  • Features, series, microdramas

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