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Screenwriting
Types of screenwriting, slug lines, and how to use Final Draft AV 2
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Communication
9th Grade
10/08/2013

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Term
Types of Screenplay
Definition

A/V (audio/video)

-called two column scripts sometimes

Linear

Term
Sluglines
Definition

Also known as Scene Headings, they appear at the beginning of a new scene and tell us the scene's setting and is written in all caps

 

ex: INT. MADELYN'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - AFTERNOON

Term
Elements of Sluglines
Definition

-INT. or EXT--to show if indoors or outdoors

-Location--based on script not actual location

-Time--can be an estimated time of day or an exact time

Term
New Scenes
Definition
Change based on large time change or location change
Term
Action
Definition

Describes what is happening on the screen and which characters, if any, are involved

 

(bolded part is action) 

ex: INT. MADELYN'S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - AFTERNOON

WS-Madelyn is sitting on the couch watching The Walking Dead.

Term
Character Name
Definition
Always in caps and appears right above dialogue and tells which character is speaking
Term
Dialogue
Definition

Words the character speaks

-single-spaced, no quotes

Term
Parentheticals
Definition
Used within dialogue to describe what a character is simultaneously doing such as who they are speaking to, how they say it, or any action they do. Always live inside parenthesis.
Term
Voiceover
Definition
used when a character or narrator can be heard talking from some unknown place (narrator, voice in head, etc.)
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