Templates
Communicating means being understood. And your goal with the script is to communicate - so make yourself understood. Be clear in your thoughts and what the audiences sees, and it will be clear on the page.
TSL's Feature Format Template is an great tool to help you see how the script page should look as well as how to effectively communicate slug lines, title cards, scene descriptions, and dialogue, etc.
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Creating Characters: Use the Family
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My uncle spent two years in a Texas penitentiary for stealing a cab with a butter knife, driving it to a whorehouse, only to get pulled over later for a DUI. When he was in prison and someone asked him what he was in for, he would just say, “I gave crime a bad name.” This is a true story. The same guy lived in a motel room for twenty years because it had a view, once asked his mother in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner if she arrived on a spaceship, and counseled me on the dangers of drugs, yet had a heart attack – TWICE – from snorting cocaine. I love my uncle, and…
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Up (2009)
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Five Plot Point Breakdowns
Screenplay Genre: Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family Movie Time: 96 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Carl Fredricksen, an elderly sour recluse still grieving from the loss of his wife, opens his door to discover Russell, a Wilderness Explorer scout, who explains that if he assists an old person, he will achieve his "assisting the elderly" badge, and then he'll become a "Senior" Wilderness Explorer. Annoyed with Russell's persistence, Carl sends him off to hunt a fictional Snipe that supposedly "burrows two blocks down." (00:15:26)
