Script Writing

We had a lesson when we wrote very very rough drafts to the opening of our film. We learnt the formatting that a movie script needs to be put into. Font must be Courier, must be size 12 and all the lines must be correctly indented. This is done so that everyone can understand what part of the script is what and each page should last roughly 1 minute. So if a company receives a script that is 45 pages long then they can guess its going to be about 45 mins long without even reading the whole thing.

example of a script correctly formatted.

 

We talked about how slug lines (scene headings) and the action description (mise en scene) help set up the scene and can connotate a lot. Reading it helped me realise that sometimes you don't need much dialogue for the audience to know whats going on and sometimes it's better to have as little as you can.