Hey guys, welcome back. We're gonna go through our first lesson about, well, what is a screenplay, screenplay or a script is a written story with visual descriptions of drama. Basically, it's a blueprint for what needs to be filmed, and to know what's needed to make the film, such as locations, camera placement wardrobe, and it also determines the length of the film. Film is a visual medium. Therefore, you can't have information that can't be filmed or shown on the screen. What a script is not is well, it's not a novel, where you can write huge amounts of your characters inner dialogue and thoughts.

And I will elaborate digress, they can create sentences that are deep and artistic. Now that's not to say that a screenwriter can't be artistic, but a script needs to be as efficient and written as vividly as possible. Well, I have to remember is that a screenplay has action and dialogue, whatever you hear instead see on screen is the action. And the action is written in the present tense. In a way, it's like watching a film with a visually impaired person, you have to explain what's happening in the movie. As it happens.

Up next, we're going to cover format because you've seen a screenplay. It's formatted differently than anything else. All right, now let's talk about format. If you've seen the script, you probably noticed that it has a format unique, and it's kind of unusual. So here's a page of a script. Right?

So why is this question format? Well, it's a way to show and to know where the action takes place and who's doing what and saying, you see the Word Spacing? Well, it has to do with time and money. The length of a screenplay gives a filmmaker an idea of the possible length and budget to make a film. In a screenplay, one page is roughly one minute of screen time. A final movie will usually run a little shorter longer and the font is pretty much established to be 12 point 10 pitch and the typeface is basically the core type, the major components of a screenplay or action dialogue.

Action is what can be heard and seen by the audience like descriptions of settings, character movements, actions or side effects. Action is written in the present tense. Dialogue is what the character set, the individual components can be broken further into header or slugline. Action, character, character parents that dialogue parents dialog itself, transition and the over black title cards. So, let's look at each of these lists use the script basics page. Okay, so we're going to look at slugline screenplay has slick lines at the start of every scene and usually has three pieces of information where the scene To set inside, which is interior, or outside written as texture, specific location and the time of day, each slug line begins when you see the actual line.

Well, what that is is that basically is what is happening on the screen and what the audience sees and hears. As you see, it's written in the present tense. Okay, so we're going to look at the character line. Okay, this is the component that basically has a name with a character, it's going to be in all caps. And then right next to it will be the character parents stetic. This is going to indicate as a character is off screen on the phone or speaking over a phone.

And then below that, it's going to be the dialogue parenthetic. This is the show a gesture or an attitude that is mostly visual. It can also show a character positive before speaking. You can put the word beat in parentheses, or word of warning, too much description or direction here can be seen by the reader and director as well directing on the page because the director is going to be underneath all that is going to be the dialogue. And this is basically where the characters say what they have to say. And then there's going to be the transition line, this is the show one scene going to another, and it can be a dissolve or two, or it can be time cuts.

And then last is going to be the much black with a title cards. And this is going to go in the very beginning of your script or at the very end. So now we're going to look at what makes a story story.