Formatting Flashcards
How long should a script be?
90 - 120 pages
Script length for comedy?
100
Script length for drama ?
105-110
How to put title of movie on title page?
“Quotation Marks: The Movie”
If two ppl are working on the script together? title page
use an ampersand “&”
what appears on lower left corner of title page?
address, phone, email
screen headings are always set up with a what
space then hyphen
First words that appear in all caps?
FADE IN:
FADE IN: appears flush where?
to the left of the margin
FADE OUT: appears flush where?
to the right of the margin
SAME significance?
SAME = scene takes place at same time as previous one
CONTINUOUS significance?
CONTINUOUS = scene takes place following the previous one
MASTER SCENES ARE IN ALL CAPS
EXT. NINA’S CAFE - NIGHT
when you communicate names as secondary headings
LARRY
grabs a knife
OLGA
laughs
telling us that the camera is on them. This is where our mind eye goes
When do names appear in all caps?
when the character physically first appears onscreen
MONTAGE & SERIES OF SHOTS
Can be done like this
- mary runs through the grass.
- mary finds a snail and picks it up
- mary runs back to her house
Label short flashbacks?
like you would label a montage
FLASHBACK - TRAIN INCIDENT
Long flashbacks? how to begin and end?
Label like a main header scene
FLASHBACK - EXT. TRAIN STATION - NIGHT
BACK TO PRESENT DAY - INT. DONUT SHOP - DAY
How do we label all dreams, nightmares, flashbacks, animations?
ALL CAPS - SCENE TITLE
When do you use INSERT?
When you want to draw special attention to a smaller item
How many lines in a paragraph?
4 max
what does SUPER stand for
superimpose
SUPER: “FIVE YEARS LATER”
or
SUPER: “Five years later”
where are editing notations put?
Flush to the right
is there any need to write cont’d when a scene goes to next page?
Not for spec scripts
