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Table of Contents

  1. What Exactly Is a Script? What Makes Good Story?
  2. Script Styles, Submission Scripts, and Shooting Scripts
  3. Spec Screenplay Page Properties and Script Length
  4. Script Elements and Scene Heading
  5. Action
  6. Character Name
  7. Dialogue
  8. Parenthetical
  9. Extension
  10. Transition
  11. Shots
  12. Page Breaking, Finer Points, Dual Dialogue, and Adlibs
  13. Abbreviations and Montages
  14. A Series of Shots and Short Lines/Poetry/Lyrics
  15. Intercuts
  16. Titles or Opening Credits, and Superimpose or Title
  17. Title Page
  18. Production Drafts, Top Continued and Bottom Continued
  19. Locking Your Script Pages and Locking Your Scenes
  20. Header, Do's and Don'ts
  21. Other Script Formats
  22. Title Page of TV Movies