Hollywood Screenwriter Attempts To Write A Scene in 7 Minutes

Emily Carmichael (Pacific Rim: Uprising, Jurassic World 3) featured in this fun and instructive 26-minute video.

Courtesy of Vanity Fair:

We challenged screenwriter Emily Carmichael to write a scene on camera — in seven minutes. Emily talks through her process and takes us into the mind of a screenwriter. She had only seven minutes to write the first draft, five minutes to write the second draft, and three minutes to write the third draft — see what she ended up with.

Emily is given some prompts and conditions about the scene, then receives two sets of studio notes to incorporate the final draft.

I suppose only people interested in screenwriting would watch it, but I’d love to see this as a web series.

HT to Christopher Vazquez for posting this over in the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group.