Scripting

Scripting!

The film script:
In the vast majority of cases, a screenplay or script will be developed as part of the preparatory work prior to filming. In many cases the script represents the very first stretch of a film's journey. A script of screenplay can be an original work or an adaption from an existing piece of writing. In the film script, the action of the scene is described together with the movement, actions, expressions, and dialogues of the characters. Industry film scripts observe strict formatting rules.

Within film industry scripts are generally known as the first part of a film journey, it is one of the first envisions of film. Scripts can be original work or previous work that has been adapted. An example of this would be 'Charlie and The Chocolate Factory' (2005) which was a remake of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' (1971). 

There are usually six types of paragraph in a screenplay:

- Scene Heading
- Action
- Character
- Parenthetical
- Dialogue
- Transition

Scene Heading:
- A scene heading always consists of at least three elements:
1. an interior or exterior indicator (INT. EXT.)
INT.
EXT.
2. a location or setting
INT. Classroom
EXT. Yard
3. a time of day 
INT. Day
EXT. Night - Space

When together:
INT. CLASSROOM - DAY
EXT. YARD - NIGHT

Action:
The action tells the reader what happens on the screen. A well written script tries to create in the reader's mind the three-dimensional experience of the film. This means describing images, sounds, actions and speech in such a way that scenes unspool in the reader's mind's eye in a fashion that is as close as possible to the way they will on the screen once the film has been shot and edited. 

Character:
- The character element introduces the character about to speak.

Parenthetical:
- Occasionally words appear in brackets beneath the character name and above the character's dialogue which provide extra information relating to the character's delivery of that dialogue. 

Dialogue:
- The dialogue element is selected to present the words spoken by a character in a scene.

Transition:
- Transitions are used to indicate special information about the nature of the change from one scene to another, for example a straight cut, a dissolve, a fade to black.