Screenplay Format #8 - Script Details

 Consecutive Pages

 

The Following Page in the Script can be continued in this way –

 

 

1.  If a New Scene is beginning –

 

Do the same as at the beginning of the script, on the line under the Header.

 

 

2.  If a Previous Scene is continuing –

Top of the next page________________________________________________________________

 

 

 

                          5 lines of the HEADER                                                                       Title – White Draft – Date         2          

 

1    CONTINUED:

CHARACTER NAME

etc.

 

________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

Note - There is a Colon after    CONTINUED.

 

 

Character Break

 

When a character’s information goes beyond the bottom of the page, onto the next page,

it should be broken like this –

 

 

________________________________________________________________________________

 

CHARACTER NAME

Dialogue

(actions) etc.

 (MORE)

FOOTER

 

 

 

 

________________________________________________________________________________

Bottom of the page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top of the next page________________________________________________________________

 

 

5 lines of the HEADER                                                                         Title - White Draft - Date         3 

1    CONTINUED: 

CHARACTER NAME (CONT’D)

Dialogue

etc.

 

_________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

 

I based, where to break the character’s information,

on having a minimum of    4    lines on the Previous Page,

to include –

 

 

-  CHARACTER NAME

-  2 lines of Dialogue, (actions, etc.)

-  (MORE)

-  Upper Case letters

       -  in Brackets    ( )

-  Centred

 

If it is not possible to do this,

then –

 

            - Press        ENTER,

               to make Main Text Spaces down to the    FOOTER

            -  continue on the next page,

               by beginning the character information, as new, as above

            -  CHARACTER NAME (CONT’D)

                        -  Upper Case letters

                        -  CONT’D

                                    -  in Brackets    ( )

                        -  Centred

 

 

[CREW TAGS]

 

At appropriate places in the Script,

I found it a good idea

to place information for the crew,

if it is specifically relevant to what is happening,

in the form of    CREW TAGS,

 

            - Aligned Left to the Left Margin

            - all Upper Case Letters

            - contained within Square Brackets    [ ]

 

Such as –

 

[CAMERA – FOCUS ON INSIDE OF MAIN DOOR]

[LIGHTING - THE DAZZLE OF TORCHLIGHT HAS RENDERED EVERYTHING BLACK]

[SOUND - JARRING NOISES COME IN FROM THE STREET]

 

 

These are not in any list.

 

 

CAMERA TERMS        

Mine –                                         Industry Standard –

 

FOCAL DISTANCE / OBJECT SIZE (SHOT SIZE) FRAMES

 

ESTABLISHING FRAME             – ESTABLISHING SHOT

EXTREME LONG FRAME          -  EXTREME LONG SHOT / EXTREME WIDE SHOT

LONG FRAME                             -  LONG SHOT / WIDE SHOT / WS

 

FULL FRAME                              -  FULL SHOT / FS

KNEE FRAME                             -  MEDIUM FULL SHOT / MFS

THIGH FRAME                           -  COWBOY SHOT / CS

HIP FRAME                                 -  MEDIUM SHOT / MS 

WAIST FRAME               

CHEST FRAME                           -  MEDIUM CLOSE-UP / MCU

CLOSE-UP FRAME                     -  CLOSE-UP / CU

               - FACE FRAME

CHOKER FRAME                        -  CHOKER

EXTREME CLOSE-UP                -  EXTREME CLOSE-UP / ECU

               FRAME

                       

EYE LEVEL FRAME                    – EYE LEVEL

LOOKING DOWN FRAME          – HIGH ANGLE

LOOKING UP FRAME                 – LOW ANGLE

POINT OF VIEW FRAME            – POINT OF VIEW SHOT / POV

                        (POV)

 

          TRANSITIONS

 

          CUT-IN                                          -  CUT-IN

CUT TO                                         -  (Quick cut to the next scene)

CUTAWAY                                     -  CUTAWAY

REVERSE CUTAWAY                   – (When you are in a FLASHBACK within a SCENE

     and cut back to, and out of, the original SCENE)

          JUMP CUT                                    -  JUMP CUT

 

OTHER

 

POS                                              -  (Position)

          PAN                                                -  PAN

          SLOW MOTION                             -  SLOW MOTION

          TRACKING                                    -  TRACKING

(c) Katherine Stuart 2022

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