When it came to writing draft number 5 of my script, I decided not to cut out as much as I had initially planned to do.
There is a variation on a 2-part Pilot episode, which I took into consideration. This is the extended pilot episode, where the first episode of a new series will be around 15 minutes longer than regular episodes in the season.
The reason behind this being, a writer/director is able to tell more of the story in order to draw the audience in to watching more. Examples of an extended hour long pilot, compared to a standard 45 minute episode are, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and more recently, The Flash.
By keeping my script at 60 pages, therefore being an hour in length, it gave me more room to tell more of a story, involving two murders, and showing the downfall of both my major characters, Edward and Evelyn. This then ties in for setting up for the rest of the series, where they are both already killers, allowing the story to move forward quicker in episodes 2 through 6.
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