Formatting

Question 1

How long should a script be?

Answer 1

90 - 120 pages

Question 2

Script length for comedy?

Answer 2

100

Question 3

Script length for drama ?

Answer 3

105-110

Question 4

How to put title of movie on title page?

Answer 4

“Quotation Marks: The Movie”

Question 5

If two ppl are working on the script together? title page

Answer 5

use an ampersand “&”

Question 6

what appears on lower left corner of title page?

Answer 6

address, phone, email

Question 7

screen headings are always set up with a what

Answer 7

space then hyphen

Question 8

First words that appear in all caps?

Answer 8

FADE IN:

Question 9

FADE IN: appears flush where?

Answer 9

to the left of the margin

Question 10

FADE OUT: appears flush where?

Answer 10

to the right of the margin

Question 11

SAME significance?

Answer 11

SAME = scene takes place at same time as previous one

Question 12

CONTINUOUS significance?

Answer 12

CONTINUOUS = scene takes place following the previous one

Question 13

MASTER SCENES ARE IN ALL CAPS

Answer 13

EXT. NINA’S CAFE - NIGHT

Question 14

when you communicate names as secondary headings

Answer 14

LARRY
grabs a knife

OLGA
laughs

telling us that the camera is on them. This is where our mind eye goes

Question 15

When do names appear in all caps?

Answer 15

when the character physically first appears onscreen

Question 16

MONTAGE & SERIES OF SHOTS

Answer 16

Can be done like this

• • mary runs through the grass.
• • mary finds a snail and picks it up
• • mary runs back to her house

Question 17

Label short flashbacks?

Answer 17

like you would label a montage

FLASHBACK - TRAIN INCIDENT

Question 18

Long flashbacks? how to begin and end?

Answer 18

Label like a main header scene
FLASHBACK - EXT. TRAIN STATION - NIGHT

BACK TO PRESENT DAY - INT. DONUT SHOP - DAY

Question 19

How do we label all dreams, nightmares, flashbacks, animations?

Answer 19

ALL CAPS - SCENE TITLE

Question 20

When do you use INSERT?

Answer 20

When you want to draw special attention to a smaller item

Question 21

How many lines in a paragraph?

Answer 21

4 max

Question 22

what does SUPER stand for

Answer 22

superimpose
SUPER: “FIVE YEARS LATER”
or
SUPER: “Five years later”

Question 23

where are editing notations put?

Answer 23

Flush to the right

Question 24

is there any need to write cont’d when a scene goes to next page?

Answer 24

Not for spec scripts