Speaker 1: I'm back with another video and in this video we're going to go over script writing. Writing a script, how to format a script properly. The reason you want to have a properly formatted script is one, it makes it easier on the actors and two, if you want to submit the script it has to be formatted correctly before submission. So I'm here today to show you how to format it. Now I'm using Writer's Duet, you don't have to use Writer's Duet. You can use Google Docs, you can use Microsoft Word, etc. As long as you know how to format. The thing with Writer's Duet is it formats it for you. It shows you how to, it formats it for you from start to finish. It has a free version, which I'm using now. They're not sponsoring me for it, so I'm not going to go into detail with billing and how much it costs. But if you choose to go with Microsoft Word, just follow the format. You'll catch the hang of it and you'll know how to format your script. The first thing we're going to do is go to new project. Now we're making this up. For the project we're going to say a knock at the door. Right now, if you're in Writer's Duet, you know, we want to go with screenplay. It's going to automatically sync to the title page. If we pick title page first, it's going to bring us to the title page. Excuse me, but we're going to have to fill it in again. So if you go to screenplay, it'll automatically fill it in for you on the title page. You can also use this for virtual reality. You can use this for a book, graphic novel, notes, radio podcast, etc. Sitcom. So it just shows you that script writing is an essential part for translating anything visual from the paper to the TV. So you don't want to go over screen. You don't want to skip the screen writing process. I know a lot of times it's easier for us to freestyle, but from experience, it's a no on freestyle because you're going to have to do it 100 times over if you just take the time to write it out and put it in the script. So again, we're going to go on screenplay. Going to hit create. Now watch. Let's go to the title page to the left. You see, it's already here. The only thing you have to come in and do and put your address, phone number, email if you choose to, but a knock at the door written by Frank Benjamin is already there. So let's go to default document. Now you see how it's already here at scene. The scene is location. Day and night. If you read it at the top, it shows you it's helping you. And that's all you have to put. So we're going to put location. It's a knock at the door. So we're going to say interior. Living room. Morning. That's it. We don't have to put anything extra. We don't have to go into extreme details. You go into the details with storyboard, which I'll show you right here. We're in Canva and it's a storyboard, right? Storyboard is where you come here and then you can put your address, phone number, email, and then you can put all the intricate details that you want in a shot to find a good one for you. Will look kind of like cartoonish, but for right here, you see scene one, Jesse and Jamie are walking hand to hand. Then you have to up close to the shoes. Then they're looking off. Then they're sitting down. He's proposing. They kiss. This is what this is for. You don't, you don't put all of this into your script. You storyboard this out for a visualization. You can come in Canva and you can use pictures or you could, you know, get a family member and you can take a camera and take pictures of them. Operating how you would want them to, and then you translate that to the actors. But you can come here and get a storyboard in Canva. Canva has a free version. They also have a paid version. They're not sponsoring me. So we're not really getting into that either, but it's a storyboard. Um, and, but you do not confuse storyboard with. Script writing. So you don't put, you don't put all of that wide angle and close up. You can right here at the shot, but you see how the message come up. Um, where's the shot? That's text. Just really one second. Here it is shot. You see camera close up on someone rarely used. That's because you're going to use that in your storyboarding. So back to the script interior living room morning, that's it. That's all you put. Now you're going to hit enter and you see how automatically goes into the action. So again, the reason I use writer's duet is because the format is already there. If you use Microsoft word or Google docs, I'm not too much familiar with Google docs. I don't know if a format for you or not, but if it doesn't, then you have to format it and you have to format it like this. So you can Google examples and it'll show you. Um, but that's the purpose of this video is for me to show you how. So it's automatically going to the action. So we're going to use Greg and Naomi. So Greg is going to be in the living room. So Greg is on edge as he watch, as he watches chaos. I'm sorry. Chaos unfolds on the news, right? He hears a knock at the door. No, we're going to stop. So Greg is on edge as he watches chaos unfolds on the news, right? So this is to your actor. Now your actor, whoever is playing Greg is going to be on the edge as he watches chaos unfold on the news. This is the action. This is what he's doing. Um, so now you hit enter again. You can set it up with another action. He hears a knock at the door. If you want him to say something, you will go to character and I see how indent over here, you're going to put Greg and denial was the dialogue. So now when you hit enter after the character automatically goes to the dialogue again, this is why I like this is because automatically formatted for you. So you could put a line for Greg. Um, this makes no sense what is happening or what is going on with our country. Right. So this is the actor's line. Whoever's playing Greg, he's going to say that, but he's going to act out this action before or simultaneously. Um, and now we're back at another action. Um, there's a loud knock at the door, loud knock at the door. Now we're back to Greg. Okay. Or I'm sorry. I went to dialogue instead when I should've went to character, see how indented Greg. Now when I hit enter, so you continue. So once you get Greg one time, it's automatically going to go back to him. And when I enter Naomi, um, it'll alternate. So Greg dialogue, who is it? Who is banging at the door? Is that banging at the door right now? You can have it to where he gets up and walk to the door, but you can go, you can introduce Naomi here too. Um, Naomi, it is me, Naomi open up. It's an emergency. Okay. Now the flow of it is that whatever Greg is watching on the news, that's unfolding. Naomi is going to bring it to his attention and bring clarity. Naomi is going to bring clarity. I'm sorry, I spelled Naomi wrong, but Naomi is going to bring it to clarity. She's going to bring clarity. So the whole base of this scene is to convey what's going on at the news. And we can go any way we can go political. We can go zombie outbreak. We can go mass shooting. We can go anywhere. Again, this is made up, so I don't really have details, but to give you a sense, this is how it is. It's me, Naomi open up. It's an emergency. So your next action, he is going to walk to the door, open the door. She's going to come in, pays back and forth. And then that's when she's going to explain what's going on. And then the story starts from there. But just to give you an idea, this is how you probably, this is how you properly write a script. It's just like this in this format. And like I said, if you use writer's duet, you can, it goes in order. Now, the transition, the transition is if you're starting from one place in the scene to another, see how it's over here. So it's transitioning from the living room. You see fade in, fade out, dissolve to that's the transition scene from one area to another within the script. You're, this is important too. Um, if you're, if you're outsourcing your edit and apart, they weren't there. So you give them all the, you give them the script, you give them all the footage and you say, Hey, this is how it's supposed to go. Um, your transition, it lets them know when the fade to want to dissolve, how to transition from this scene to the next scene. Or if you want to transition from one area to another area. So Naomi and Greg start at the house, but then they leave the house and they want to go to the hospital or they leave the house and they want to go to the library or even from the house to the car. She's like, come on, like, let's get in the car. Let's go take care of this. Then you will put transition and transition to the car. Still the same scene, but they're transitioning. Um, or if you want to go to scene two, Hey, you've seen two. And then that's when you will put the cut to the fade to fade in and out, dissolve, whatever that's for the editors. That's when transition comes in. Remember shot. If you want to text, get fancy with the text notes, outline, new act, et cetera. Song lyrics. If, um, if you watch, uh, get out or any other Jordan Peele movies or any movie in general, where there is a person that's looking for something, or there's a moment in the movie where the song lyrics come in, like in the beginning of that move, I can't think of what it is, but, um, it was Jordan Peele movie. In the beginning, they were listening. So I got five on it. So you can put that there and say, Hey, you know, um, lyrics, I got five on it. Playing. I got five on it. So when you're shooting, you know, to play that while they're driving or whatever. Um, but yeah, everything is pretty much formatted for you. And as you've seen, when we first started, it started with the scene action characters, your dialogue, this is going to basically be your main four. You can use parentheses. Um, it's followed by the characters dialogue of their, um, saying something that's been said before you use parentheses, um, and then get a dialogue or transition. But this is basically how you will write your script or how you will format a script. So, um, again, I use writer's duet. You can use any other app or program, or you can use Microsoft word or Microsoft. Or Google docs. Um, and also again, Canva is a good thing for storyboarding. And also if you wanted to make a cover for your scene, how you can use Canva as well. Again, they have a free version and a paid version. I usually, you can do a blank storyboard and get real creative, or you can just come here. Like I say, and just take pictures or a mood of pictures. And you know what I'm saying? This storyboard has dialogue, but again, you have the script, so that's just extra work. So do just write the script. You come over and storyboard it. That's where you have both. And then it just makes things easier when it, when you shoot, when I shot my short film, um, even the iPhone desires, I use this, I use writer's duet. And everyone, I gave everyone a copy. They had a copy of this script and we went from there and made everything easy. They just had to remember the lines. So for the most part, that's how you write a script. Um, if y'all have any questions, feel free to hit me up for something. I didn't clarify comment. If something that you'd like to add on comment to that as well. So the next video I'll go over storyboarding and we'll go a little bit more detail in the storyboard. And so I appreciate you make sure you like subscribe and follow, check out some of my past content and we'll get to it. Peace.