What goes into the action in a script?


Action
  • where the scene is, give detail of scene or setting.
  • who is in the scene, could introduce characters?
  • brief description of character - appearance, age etc. 
  • character movements/actions
  • what background sounds?
  • body language/facial expressions
  • props
  • plot points
  • atmosphere/tone
  • sound - diegetic 

Basics of formatting action
  • attitude
  • change
  • core
  • brevity - concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.
  • clarity - the quality of being clear.
  • creativity - the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.
  • paragraph breaks - a single line space or an indentation (or both) marking the division between one paragraph and the next in a body of text. 
  • capitalisation - the action of writing or printing in capital letters or with an initial capital.

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