Although the ideas of story arcs and character arcs, apply both to novels and movies, there is a big difference one big difference between the two. Whether author finishes the novel after rewriting and editing, it is a finished product that can be read. When the script writer finishes a script, it is just the first stage in a long process. It is not a finished product, but simply a plan. It's a blueprint for other people to follow. A script should contain all the instructions needed by a production team to make the movie.

The instructions will be read by a production team comprising of the producer, director, the actors, the lighting team, effects team and many more around 40 professionals in all I needed to get a movie together. Plus the hundreds of associates they direct the script as a special layout, with each instruction indented to different depths, so that all members of the production team can find what they need quickly and easily. We're not going to cover the exact detail of the indents in this course, because there are so many automatic tools that exist on the internet, that it's simply not necessary to create your script from scratch. The format is an industry standard and really must be followed. The categories of instructions are as follows. The scene heading, which is also known as a slug line, tells us where the scene takes place if it's inside or outside And the approximate time of day.

Action describes what is happening in a visual way. We show but don't tell, describe behavior, but not internal emotions or thoughts. Everything is expressed in action. Use the active voice rather than the passive. As you might think, character name indicates who is talking. Don't use names not the same for two different characters, or even very similar.

Be consistent. Use the same name throughout the script. If you have a Mr. Frank burns, don't use Mr. Burns one time or Frank burns another or simply Frank for the next. lead characters could always be called by their first names. Dialogue is every word that is heard on the screen if the speaker is seen or not. extensions to dialogue can be v OS v O stands for voiceover and oh S is off screen parentheticals or directions to actors.

These are indications, some indication of how the words should be read. The short direction indicates that the focus shifts to a person All thing within the same scene. Examples all close on the snake or back to the scene after the focus is ended. Examples of transitions are cooked to pan to fade out, wipe to and dissolve to. There are many more. But these are used very sparingly.

For example, fade in and fade out are used at the beginning of the movie, and at the end. The code may be used to emphasize within the scene. But the rest of the transitions are almost never used. Using dissolve or cut at the end of the scene is not necessarily because it's obvious when a new scene starts. And before we move on to more precise definitions with some examples, here are a few tips to help you as you start to write your first script. fade in and fade out, only used at the beginning and the end of the movie.

If we want to change location, say from inside this library to the garden, then we use a dissolve or account. To avoid confusion. Remember that scene heading is also called a slug line. A scene heading appears whenever there's a change in time or a location. It contains a certain information, three pieces of information to be precise, whether the scene is inside, in which case it will be marked internal I empty or external outside, we will contain the information, ie x t with a period behind it. The location will also be specified, for example, in the car park, or in the highest building and the time of day, the approximate time of day.

It may just read day, night, or morning, or evening. In general, a movie script is between 100 and 120 pages. And there's a reason for this because a modern movie tends to be between one and a half and two hours long. In a movie script, one page equals one minute of real time action. So a script of 120 pages will equal a two hour film. As a general rule, don't start a scene with dialogue, introduce an actor with movement and action before he speaks.

So in this lecture, I gave you the broad ideas of the scene heading and the various instructions that you will find on a script. In the next lecture, we're going to delve a little bit deeper into the detail and look at some variations that can help the script to come alive.