Post 5 - Formatting your script

When it comes to script writing for beginners, there are 3 basic points to remember for the whole script. They are 'Headings', 'Narrative description' and 'Dialogue'.

Headings - There are several headings to remember when writing a script, they include 'The camera location, the scene location and the time of day'. This can be expressed as the following,

SCENE NO.       INT/EXT       LOCATION         TIME OF DAY

 

Narrative Description - This includes 'action', 'sounds' and 'character and settings (visual)'. This is shown to be apart from the dialogue. This is pretty much stage directions and instructions that the characters must follow.

 

Dialogue - This is all forms of speech and soundtrack when possible, speech is shown to be in centred in the page underneath the Characters name in bold which is also placed in the centre of the game.