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Friday, April 8, 2022

Screenplay Format # 14 - Locations / Scenes List - Part 3

 
CONTINUING to set up the LOCATIONS / SCENES List -
 
 
10.  TO CHANGE THE CONTENTS LIST TO TWO COLUMNS

 

If you have a long Contents List, and would like to make it more compact,

then it can be put into 2 columns, such –

 

          -  Have NO Header

          -  Keep Footer

          -  Have the Contents List starting on the line of the page

             where you want it to begin

             under the File Heading

          -  Have the whole Contents List aligned down the Left Margin.

             continuing over the Page Break

             without any breaks

          -  Place the Cursor at the end of the list

          -  Left Click on it to make it a flashing line

          -  Press    ENTER    however many times it takes

             to move the Details of Locations / Scenes onto the next page,

             beginning the text at the    TOP    of that page

          -  BACKSPACE    the line of text –

Name – White Draft – No Month YEAR

              to the Left Margin

-  SELECT all the Page Lines

              from the top line of the first page containing the Contents,

              and go down all of that page and all of the next page length

           -  Left Click on the Layout tab on the ribbon above

           -  Left Click on Columns

           -  Left Click on Two

              This forms the TWO PAGE lengths into ONE, WITH TWO COLUMNS

           -  UNSELECT   all that was Selected

           -  Place the Cursor at the beginning of the top line of the second column

           -  Left Click it so that it becomes a flashing line

           -  Press    ENTER    8    times

           -  SELECT & CUT    the line of text -

Name – White Draft – No Month YEAR

           -  Press    ENTER    once,

              to replace the line that was removed

           -  Place the curser at the beginning of the first line of the second column

           -  Left Click on it to make it a flashing line

           -  Press the    DOWNWARD ARROW Key    3   times

           -  PASTE    in the text line -

Name – White Draft – No Month YEAR

 


v    If you ever have alignment problems -


 
    -  Left Click on the “Show / Hide Paragraph Marks” symbol, 

    in the Home ribbon,  

    and it will show you what the hidden format is,

    which you can more easily see and then correct





eg.

_______________________________________________________



 
 












 
































            ____________________________________________________________________



 
That is now, the CONTENTS Page completed.
 

 

 

11.  DETAILS OF LOCATIONS / SCENES

 

General Location Numbers

 

Now that the General Location Headings are all numbered, in the Contents -

-  APPLY    those numbers to the same General Headings

   in the Details of Locations / Scenes

 

eg.

___________________________________________________________________________

3.  The Oval Office

etc.

 
 
12.  Val’s Hotel
etc.
 
 
20.  Townsville Railway Station
etc.
___________________________________________________________________________
 
 
 
 
12.  RE-ORGANISE GENERAL LOCATION BLOCKS
 
           -  SELECT, CUT & PASTE    the Blocks of General Location Scenes,
              so that they are in Numerical Order
 
 
eg                                  
_______________________________________________________________
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                                                                              Book             Screen
                                                                                                                                                              Page              Play
                                                                                                                                                                                    Page
                                                 USA
 
                    1.  Fancy Supper Club, New York
     86.1.1     Fancy Supper Club, New York (INT. EVENING,                              196                198
                    18 YEARS AGO) – 1924
                    See book pages 196 – 197, Fancy supper club
 
 
                    2.  Elliston Plantation
     54.1.1     Elliston Plantation (INT. or EXT. DAY or NIGHT,                            155                153
                    5 MONTHS EARLIER) – 1941, Dec
 
 
                     3.  The Oval Office
                     See book pages 1 – 2, The Oval Office
                                     1.1.3     The Oval Office (INT. DAY or NIGHT, 22 YEARS EARLIER)        6                    6
                    – 1942, May/Jun
                    etc.
 
 
 
                     AUSTRALIA & REGION
 
                     CAIRNS REGION
                     4.  Cairns Region
                                    13.4.1     Cairns Region (INT or EXT. DAY or NIGHT,                                   56                   45
                     3 – 1 YEAR EARLIER) – 1918 – 20
 
 
                      PALM ISLAND
                      5.  Palm Island Mission
                      See book pages 56 – 57, Palm Island Mission
                                       13.1     Ablutions Block, Palm Island Mission                                               57                   41
                      (EXT. EVENING, DARK, 21 YEARS EARLIER) – 1921
                                       13.2     Women’s Dormitory Block, Palm Island Mission                              -                      42
                      (EXT. EVENING, DARK, A FEW MOMENTS LATER) 
                      – 1921
                      etc.
 
 
_______________________________________________________________
 
 
 
 
That is now, the DETAILS OF LOCATIONS / SCENES completed.
 
 
 
13.  RE-NAME THE FILE
 
-  RE-NAME    this file as -
4-NAME- locations-scenes
              taking out    COPY
 
 
That is now, the    4.  NAME-locations-scenes    FILE    completed.
 
 


(c) Katherine Stuart 2022
Dochas Books Film

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