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Page Setting in Scriptwriting

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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cover page:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Centered on the page is the title of your film in
ALL CAPS, then a double space and then “by,” another double space, and “your
name.” In the lower right-hand corner, put your name, mailing address,
telephone number, email, and (if you’ve decided to register your script with
the Writer’s Guild) your Writer’s Guild registration number.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FONT, MARGINS, AND SPACING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Screenplays live on letter-sized paper (8.5 x 11
inches). They’re always written in Courier font, 12 point, 10 pitch. No bold,
no italics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page Margins:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Left: 1.5 inches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Right: 1 inch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Top: 1 inch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bottom: 1 inch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Screenplay Element Margins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Slug line: left margin 1.5 inches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Action: left margin 1.5 inches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Character name: left margin 3.7 inches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dialog: left margin 2.5 inches, right margin 2.5
inches (or 6 inches from left edge of page)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parenthetical: left margin 3.1 inches, right margin
2.9 inches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Spacing Between Elements:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Slug line and Action: double space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Action and more Action: double space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Action and Character Name: double space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Character Name and Dialogue: single space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Dialogue and the next Character Name: double
space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Dialogue and Action: double space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Character Name and Parenthetical: single
space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Parenthetical and Dialogue: single space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Action and Slug line: double space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Between Dialogue and Slug line: double space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You know, it’s probably a lot easier to remember
that in a single character’s speech, made up of Character Name, Dialogue, and
possibly a Parenthetical, there are single spaces between the elements. Between
everything else, double space.</span></div>
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Page Setting in Scriptwriting

Cover page: Centered on the page is the title of your film in ALL CAPS, then a double space and then “by,” another double space, a...

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Preproduction-Script work

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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Why does my screenplay have to be formatted?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So it’s easy to read. It may be OK to have a scruffy
looking script if you are the only one who will use it, but to allow your cast
and crew to make sense of it applying a few rules of formatting makes it easier
to read.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are two main types of fictional screenplay –
the spec script and the shooting script. The spec script is what gets sent out
to producers and actors, but we can probably forget about that as we are going
to pick up a camera ourselves, so we can write a shooting script.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Layout<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scripts are best typed on only one side of the paper
in 12 point courier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Double spacing between lines allows you to read the
script easier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Leave good borders around the script.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Keep to the above tips and you will have a well laid
out script. This can help you time your script as now one page of screenplay
will equal one minute of screen time.</span></div>
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Basic Element of Script Writing part-2

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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You Have see how to write a standard Slug line, here
are few variations that come up in specific situations:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1) If a scene starts in a general Location, let’s
say LAUREL’S HOUSE, and continues as the characters move between Sub locations,
such as KITCHEN and LIVING ROOM, you don’t need to repeat the Location or the
Time with each new Slug line. You can do this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With some help from context, we understand that the
two characters are moving around in the same house in continuous time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2) In the scene above, some writers use “KITCHEN –
CONTINUOUS” to emphasize the regular flow of time. But that’s not necessary.
Instead, CONTINUOUS is best used for stylized scenes where a conversation or
action continues right across several Locations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3) Finally, if a scene occurs in a Location,
followed by a scene in the same Location but at a later time, the word LATER
can be used in the Slug line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CUTS:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once upon a time, it was standard to use the words
“CUT TO:” to indicate a change in scene. Nowadays, the cut that comes with a
scene change is implied by a new Slug line and CUT TO isn’t used as much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The best time to use CUT TO is when you really want
to emphasize the juxtaposition or shift between two scenes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You can use JUMP CUT or SMASH CUT to imply a
super-fast, in-your-face editing style. If using BRUCE LEE KARATE CHOP CUT
makes you feel like a bad-ass, then go for it; just know that many pros
consider it amateurish. Besides, no matter how it’s written, a cut always
happens in 1/24th of a second – the amount of time it takes to switch from one
frame to the next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ACTION SEQUENCES:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Writing an action sequence can take a little getting
used to, as you learn to translate what you envision on the screen into words.
It certainly helps to read well-written action scripts such as Raiders of the
Lost Ark or The French Connection, to see how it’s done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In general, keep in mind that the way you format
action should mimic its pace. The faster the action, the more you’ll want to
break it up into discreet bits. Feel free to use fragments to keep the pace
fast. You can also use capitalization to emphasize and draw attention to
elements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MORE DETAILS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parenthetical: These are used within dialogue to
describe what a character is simultaneously doing, who she’s talking to, or how
he is speaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parenthetical always live inside parenthesis and on
their own line. If they hit their right margin, they wrap around to the next
line, like above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parenthetical also take up space, slow your pace,
and annoy actors, who don’t like being told how to say their lines; try to only
use parenthetical where not using them would lead to confusion,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Voice Over (V.O.): Used when a character or narrator
can be heard talking from some unknown place (the future, heaven, inside our
head).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Off Screen (O.S.): Used when a character in the
scene can be heard but isn’t actually on the screen. It looks like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Capitalization within Action: The very first time a
character’s name appears in Action, it appears in ALL CAPS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some writers also use ALL CAPS when a sound effect
appears in Action. Others capitalize important props. This would look like
this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MORTIMER groans and pops a handful of aspirin. The
tea kettle WHISTLES. Mortimer pulls out a SUB-PARTICLE SUPER BLASTER and blows
the kettle to smithereens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Camera Directions: These indicate how close the
camera is and how it will move, focus, etc. Directions include POV shots, pans,
tilts, push ins, pull outs, dolly moves, tracking shots, close ups, wides, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s incredibly tempting, as a story mastermind, to
direct your movie on the page using Camera Directions. Resist this temptation.
You aren’t the director (yet). Unless there’s absolutely no other way to
communicate a visual sequence upon which your entire plot hinges, leave Camera
Directions out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page numbers: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These go in the upper right-hand corner. There’s no
page number on the first page of a screenplay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scene numbers: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">DO NOT put scene numbers on your scenes. These are
only for shooting scripts, and are used to help the production crew plan the
shooting schedule.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Basic Element of Script Writing part-2

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