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How To Format Establishing Shots

How To Format Establishing Shots

by Trevor Mayes | Apr 17, 2023 | Quick Screenwriting Tips, Scene Headings, Scenes, Writing | 0 comments

Establishing When you just want to show a quick EXT. (exterior) shot of a building, before setting up the INT. (interior) shot, is it okay to use a scene heading without any scene description below? Yes! But — you need to add ESTABLISHING after your scene...
How To Format Establishing Shots

Quick Tip: Use The More Active Verb Form

by Trevor Mayes | Apr 18, 2019 | Quick Screenwriting Tips, Style, Words, Writing | 0 comments

Use the more active (simple present) form of a verb Here’s a way you can immediately improve the quality of your writing. Don’t do this: Jeremy is sprinting down the street. Do this: Jeremy sprints down the street. Not only does using the simple present...
How To Format Establishing Shots

Quick Tip: Page Breaks

by Trevor Mayes | Mar 14, 2019 | Quick Screenwriting Tips, Writing | 0 comments

Breaking Bad It’s bad form to force a page break mid-sentence. That goes for dialogue and action lines. Some of the better screenwriting software programs will not even allow you to do this. They’ll automatically force a page break after the completion of...
Quick Screenwriting Tip: Don’t Abbreviate In Dialogue

Quick Screenwriting Tip: Don’t Abbreviate In Dialogue

by Trevor Mayes | Jun 25, 2018 | Dialogue, Quick Screenwriting Tips | 0 comments

Quick Screenwriting Tip: Don’t use abbreviations in dialogue. Abbreviated words like “Dept.” and “Sen.” are confusing in dialogue and force the reader to stop and think, however briefly… which is bad. Is it “Deputy” or...
Parentheticals: Always Before Dialogue – Not After

Parentheticals: Always Before Dialogue – Not After

by Trevor Mayes | Apr 15, 2014 | Dialogue, Formatting, Quick Screenwriting Tips | 1 comment

Never end a dialogue block with a parenthetical. I’ve been seeing this kind of thing a lot lately in the amateur scripts I’ve been reading: DEMON You think that puny gun can kill me? (laughs) If you need to indicate an action that follows a block of...
Quick Screenwriting Tip: Don’t Abbreviate In Dialogue

Quick Screenwriting Tip: Pacing With Multiple Locations

by Trevor Mayes | Jan 24, 2011 | Pacing, Quick Screenwriting Tips, Writing | 2 comments

Quick Screenwriting Tip: As you race toward your thrilling conclusion, be mindful of your scene lengths, especially if you need to cut across multiple locations, with multiple characters. Longer scenes will slow things down. Shorter scenes will speed things up....
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