RTV 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Roundhead
23 Jan 2017
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Back cover (110-lb, solid color index stock) Comedies tend to be around 100 pages. If it looks too long, no one will want to read it. Title - quotation marks and/or underscoring are optional. Use & for co-authors who contributed equally. Do not use and - implies second name came in and rewrote script. Personal info: address, phone number, and email go in bottom left or right corner. Optional - wga and/or copyright notices in bottom left corner. Registration with wga not required to be stated. Anytime scene/location changes, put a new scene heading. Special scene headings (dreams, montages, flashbacks, etc. ) Character cue (character"s name, tells who is speaking) Ex: finer, smith"s house, small classroom, rainforest. Use dusk, dawn, afternoon, evening, noon, 12:30, etc only when necessary. Ex. if in a western the showdown is at noon, say noon in the scene heading of the showdown. Write lean - think poetry, not prose.
