Thursday 14 May 2015

Styles of scripts

Scripts
Film/TV Theatre Radio
Typically more professional looking Dialogue heavy Mainly speak with the occasional direction
Contains more description and less dialogue Contains staging directions Similar to long monologues
Designed for cameras Designed for an audience Designed for a listening audience
Active/Passive audience Active/Passive audience Passive audience
More professional ordered layout Basic layout Blocked layout of text
Has emotion embedded into the speech (depressingly) Contains lazy dialogue such as 'urgh' Normally read in one take
Shorter scenes Longer scenes Varieing scenes
Linear or non-linear Occasionally non-linear Normally a linear structure
Normally one main protagonist/antagonist Sometimes more than one protagonist/antagonist Mainly one protagonist
Restricting character movement More free with character movement No character movement
Greater non-diagetic sounds Mainly diagetic sounds Normally completely diagetic sounds

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