Brads or Posts

[coneflower2001]

I saw Post Fasteners for sale on the writers store. Are these used for scripts or is it a no no, stick only to brads?

[Plot Device]

I'm told that posts piss people off. People generally prefer the freedom that brads afford them to simply take the pages apart and leaf through them.

[LIVIN]

Brads - Acco #5

[dpaterso]

Didn't we have a thread that listed just about everything you'd ever need to put a script together, including links to online stores... um... ding!

Paper?? + card covers, brads, hole puncher, etc. (http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96332)

-Derek

[LIVIN]

Didn't we have a thread that listed just about everything you'd ever need to put a script together, including links to online stores... um... ding!

Paper?? + card covers, brads, hole puncher, etc. (http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96332)

-Derek

But wait, can I scrawl my script in blood on a length of fabric so that I can roll the thing up and send it in as a roll of fabric, which can easily roll? Wouldn't that work well? People like things that roll.

[dpaterso]

That's just an urban myth. Some prodcos will accept scripts written on rolls of toilet paper because they can hang them in toilet stalls and read a dozen pages each day, but no other type of roll submission is permitted.

That's the only occasion when "Your script was shit" ought not to be taken as a personal insult -- it means they read it all the way to the end. Ba-doomp, rimshot.

-Derek

[Rainy Night]

So that's why you said my script had a crap ending, it wasn't the stroy it was the fact it was written on toilet paper !!!

I knew it wasn't my story, whew, that's a relief.

;):hooray::tongue

[NikeeGoddess]

<<<the NikeeGoddess just shakes her head>>>
you guys are stealing my comedy! :rant:

[Madbandit]

Brads...always use brads.

[Plot Device]

I think posts are only good for when you want to store your own scripts at home on a shelf in some kind of an ultra-organized home archive of your work. Posts are more "permanent" than brads. The LACK of permanence that brads offer is what makes them so attractive when a script is actively being worked with in the various environments of development, pre-production, production, and even post-production.

Posts are far too unyielding to make them practical while the hard copies of the script are being constantly man-handled and ruffled through.

[mario_c]

OK dumb question: so where the %#&* do you buy brads?! I go to Office Max and they look at me like I have 2 heads. So I get 3/4 inch screw posts at the hardware store (Home Depot calls them binding posts), screw em in with a penny and they work fine. Where do I get proper brads?
And what's the diff? You screw in the posts and the reader takes one out. Argh.

[MrJayVee]

You want the Acco #5 brass brads. You can order them online from Office Depot. You can also get them from The Writers Store here in Los Angeles.

Do NOT use the post thingies. No reason to. Brass brads. It's what's expected and it works fine and it makes taking apart the script easier. (I used to work in the copy room at the William Morris Agency and I dreaded getting scripts held together with the post thingies. Too much to keep track of and they'd always get caught up in the Xerox machine.)

[mario_c]

I'll do that!

[dpaterso]

<<<the NikeeGoddess just shakes her head>>>
you guys are stealing my comedy! :rant:
You write comedy? :eek:

Ow! I just fell off my chair!

Acco #5 solid brass brads (http://www.writersstore.com/product.php?products_id=588) (link borrowed from other thread quoted above)

-Derek

[NikeeGoddess]

my comedy - only the toilet paper, crappy screenplay bits. my favorite adjective when it comes to screenwriting is crap. you know that. and you hate it. lol!

[coneflower2001]

Thank goodness pooh only slides one way. Hey do you think if I rolled my script backwards, upside down, wrong way out, onto tp , it would then only have a crappy beginning? Oh but with all the runny sentencing in act two, it's sure to have a truly foul ending as well. I'll be nice and two ply it.

Dp this thread stinks now...

[NikeeGoddess]

there is a flip side: if your story is heartwarming and/or a great feel good and/or a tear-jerker then tp comes in handy as well. ;)