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    Eli is a young man in his late twenties or early thirties who is sitting on a park bench pondering life and playing a video game. Some passing onlookers see Eli and decide they must intervene to give direction to his life, even if he does not want their help. The document provides information on script formatting conventions including using ALL CAPS for character names, underscores for emphasis in dialogue, and indicators like O.S. and V.O. to signify off-screen or voiceover dialogue. It also notes each script page generally equals one minute of screen time and to title script pages with the chapter or episode name starting from page 3 onward.

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    Eli is a young man in his late twenties or early thirties who is sitting on a park bench pondering life and playing a video game. Some passing onlookers see Eli and decide they must intervene to give direction to his life, even if he does not want their help. The document provides information on script formatting conventions including using ALL CAPS for character names, underscores for emphasis in dialogue, and indicators like O.S. and V.O. to signify off-screen or voiceover dialogue. It also notes each script page generally equals one minute of screen time and to title script pages with the chapter or episode name starting from page 3 onward.

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    Writing Template - 2019, My Own Instructions

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    Eli is a young man in his late twenties or early thirties who is sitting on a park bench pondering life and playing a video game. Some passing onlookers see Eli and decide they must intervene to give direction to his life, even if he does not want their help. The document provides information on script formatting conventions including using ALL CAPS for character names, underscores for emphasis in dialogue, and indicators like O.S. and V.O. to signify off-screen or voiceover dialogue. It also notes each script page generally equals one minute of screen time and to title script pages with the chapter or episode name starting from page 3 onward.

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    How I became a christian

    Chapter/Episode 1: “I am Tim”

    By Eli Antoine
    “HOW I BECAME A CHRISTIAN”

    EXT. A PARK BENCH; UB OR PATTERSON PARK- DAY/AFTERNOON (LOCATION/ TIME OF DAY-- CONTROL + 5)

    ^Info: [INT. is for “Interior”, and EXT. is for “Exterior”. Then you
    generally put what time of the day it is... can be
    Day/Night/Twilight/Afternoon/Evening/whatnot. Usually day/night is the most
    common/standard.]

    (Control + 1) Description of place and character's actions. Also a place to


    describe your characters personalities when first introduced. It's industry
    standard to put the character's names in ALL CAPS here, but I don't do it
    much, haha. (But that's only because no one else is really looking at my
    scripts. You can really do what you want if the scripts are only for you.)
    ELI a typical guy young adult late twenties early thirties. He is a lost
    young man with no direction in his life or so onlookers think. He is sitting
    on a lounge chair in a public place pondering life by playing a video game
    when a few passing onlookers decide that they must do something about his
    direction in life...whether he wants to or not.

    CHARACTER NAME (CONTROL + 2)


    Dialogue (Control + 4)

    ELIBB
    (Character emotions or small actions
    (Control + 3))
    Example dialogue...

    VANESSA
    If you have characters talking, one after another,
    without a need for additional description, if you press
    'Enter' after the first dialogue, it should just
    automatically create a new character name title (without
    you having to press control + 2) Some other
    commands/spacing are automatic too.
    Use underlines for speech emphasis (industry standard),
    as opposed to bold or italics, since it's easier for
    others to read. I sometimes just use ALL CAPS in dialogue
    or words in bold/italics anyway, haha. That's not
    industry standard though. (Neither is when I put dialogue
    in parenthesis to say that it's dialogue outside of
    speech bubbles. Just for my own comic stuff.)

    DAVID (O.S.)
    O.S. Means that they are talking “Off-Screen” without
    being shown.

    VANESSA (V.O.)
    V.O. Means they are talking in a “Voice-over”, or “in
    their thoughts/minds.”
    Title of Series or Chapter • Issue #1 • Author Name 4.

    INT. BAKERY- NIGHT

    DAVID
    Every script page generally equals to a
    minute in actual video screen time. [IN THE
    ORIGINAL TEMPLATE— without the page margin
    difference I made in this file.] A 20-minute
    video = 20 page script (approx); not
    counting the 1st title/author name page.

    On this page, please note how the top of the page from
    Pg. 3 and onward includes a title, and numbers the
    pages after the chapter title page.

    DAVID
    You can just save this file, and “Save as”
    or copy/paste it to a new file name when you
    want to create another story/chapter, to use
    the same template. Just make sure not to
    overwrite the original! :)

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