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I could be wrong about this. If I am, feel free to comment with examples to the contrary. It is very difficult for a reader to invest or care about the characters in your pilot script of most of the scenes are 3 person or more scenes. I’ve read three scripts
this week by emerging writers who all did this and I found myself giving the same note. (This is NOT, I repeat NOT an invite to send me scripts. send me a script=blocked) Scripts with almost no two person scenes and zero one person scenes have a third person effect on the story
that is very distancing. Who’s POV are we in? Why do we care? Whose journey are we on? These questions are hard to answer without at least one scene portraying the protagonist alone.
Walter White at the gas pump. Tony Soprano with the ducks. Don Draper at the bar w his napkin (and waiter) then arriving home at the end. This is true in ensembles too. The FNL pilot starts with multiple single POV beats.
This is something I always look for when I read scripts. What is the main character going through and doing when they’re alone?
