I bet you're looking forward to this part, or maybe not. But either way, this lesson is where you get to use your treatment. Outline character BIOS from earlier to finally, write your script draft. A few common rules for script writing, it is important to keep in mind the consistencies in your characters and try the right as closely to your treatment as necessary. After all, it defeats the purpose of the treatment if you decide to do a 180 degree change now in it. Speaking of rules, one of the most fundamental rule you do not want to break out of industry standards of screenwriting script formatting correctness is one of the positive signs of a professional production.

And there are also reasons why the format is still being used today, mainly because the script is formatted in a way that makes it easier for different departments and actors to find what They are looking for, as well as digest what they need to know. Let's take a look at the script for my shot for example. So as you can see, we have the cover page with the title, name, and address. Depending on the country you're from this cover page might differ. But know that these tend to be the info expected on any industry format of script. Next, we have our scenes here.

So I'm not going to go into the nitty gritty of this, because screenwriting itself can be an entirely separate class. But as you can see, the formatting of characters, props and even dialogue is consistent throughout. The key here is consistency. Now the script will only be useful for you to create additional documents but also for other crew members, like your assistant director who might need to use it to create call sheets and schedules for example. Basically, your script is the Bible for your production. So write carefully