What are the script writing formats and templates?

The script writing format and template are as follows:

1. Script format

Episode N

Scene 1, Location: Time: Weather (Environment):

A brief description of the plot in this scene (within 200 words):

Character name: (can be in bold or italics, but must be consistent): As follows Text: -Benxiang-

[Action description] (action description needs to be added in braces), if it is necessary to highlight the subjective shot or objective shot, before the action description, if it is the action of the character, it needs to be in the action Place the main character actions within the action above the action description before describing it.

For example: -Benxiang-

[A pair of big feet appears in the camera. The camera looks upward, showing the protagonist's large figure, wearing a suit and holding a small briefcase. Keep the camera parallel and move back, using the protagonist's movements to show that he is walking. ]

Dialogue: The dialogue format is: Benxiang: Dialogue content

If you need special instructions, you can use "[ ]" to add an action after the dialogue.

Other instructions: Each page represents 1 minute of the cartoon. No matter how long or short the page is, all pages will be changed to the next minute.

Note: The dialogue cannot be in written language and must be humorous. For scripts, if there is no dialogue, the audience must understand what is being said.

2. Script Sample

Prologue

City Street Morning

In the morning light, a girl wearing a blue skirt carrying Luggage walked quickly. Artificially cultivated flowers on both sides of the street pass by layer by layer, accompanying the pace of progress.

Narration: Thirty years of time have passed quietly between the fingers. It has been more than ten years since a kind of flower disappeared from sight. Despite this, it often blooms faintly in the depths of memory, all year round. There is a faint fragrance.

Long-Distance Bus Day

A national highway leads from the city to the outskirts. Trucks and buses of all sizes are speeding past. The view on both sides of the road shows the transformation from rural areas to urbanization. The scene includes mountains that are being exploded, big trees that are being knocked down, old houses that are being bulldozed, and buildings that are being built.

Shanshan, who is nearly thirty years old, looks only seventeen or eighteen years old. She is wearing a blue skirt and sitting near the car window. The wind blowing in from the window is stroking her long hair. Her deep eyes reflected the hurried lights and shadows passing by, and the words she said goodbye to her mother before leaving echoed in her ears.

Shanshan’s voice: Mom, Yingchun is getting married, and she sent me an invitation. I have asked for annual leave from the company and I want to go back to attend her wedding.

Shanshan’s mother’s voice: Okay, I’ll go back to my hometown and take a look. Our family has been away for more than ten years, so it must have changed a lot there...especially since your favorite ferry seems to be gone now.

A fashionable female conductor with heavy makeup (came over): Where are you getting off?

Shanshan: The terminal. (Hands over the money) By the way, how long does it take to arrive?

Conductor: About an hour.

Shanshan: So fast! ? I remember it used to take more than four hours by ferry.

Conductor: Of course, this is a newly built national highway. No one takes the ferry now, and there are no ferries specifically carrying passengers.

Town Center Street

At a curved branch of the national highway, there is a plaque with the slogan "Zhuyun Township welcomes you", and long-distance buses drive by at a slow speed. Then, the scene in front of us gradually became busy, with motorcycles, bicycles, tricycles, tractors, and one or two luxury cars passing by occasionally, which were very eye-catching, especially the sound of horns from time to time.

The vendors selling fruits, vegetables and snacks on the street are working hard to sell at the top of their voices, and their voices are rising and falling. The traffic situation seems very disorderly. People walking carefully check the road conditions back and forth. From a distance, it looks chaotic and a bit unsettling. Especially on some street corners, there are two young men wearing sunglasses, black T-shirts and black trousers walking in the street. Walking back and forth within the range.

The long-distance bus drove into the station, and passengers rushed to get off. Suddenly, a police car sped past not far away with its siren blaring, followed by an ambulance. This drew curious looks and whispers from passers-by. Shanshan couldn't help but stop and look.

A black Audi car drove straight towards Shanshan, stopped in front of Shanshan, and slowly lowered the window.

Shanshan (turns around, surprised): Welcome to the Spring Festival? ! (Bends to look again) Jianhui?

Yingchun: Shanshan, it’s us. Get in the car quickly.

Jianhui (helping open the car door): Was it a hard journey?

Shanshan: No, (while talking and getting in the car) I didn’t expect it to be very fast and convenient.

Yingchun (looking at Shanshan): Oh, why are you still like that after so many years? It seems like you haven’t changed at all. Look how old we are.

Jianhui (reversing): Haha, yes, Shanshan is sitting with us, it feels like two generations. Ha ha! It seems that the feng shui in the city still nourishes people.

Shanshan (laughing): Really? That's probably because I miss the old times too much. (Looking around the car) Oh, by the way, this car is new, right?

Yingchun: Yes, we don’t want to get married anymore, we have a new car and a new life.

Jianhui: This car was actually mentioned yesterday. We have been waiting for the new model for three months. We are urging you to welcome the spring, saying that we have to get the car done before you come back. , use it to pick you up.

Shanshan: You two have finally achieved enlightenment.

Points of note in script writing

1. Don’t turn it into the creation of a novel

Script writing and novel writing are basically different. The creation of a script is mainly Use words to express a series of pictures, so people who read the script should be able to immediately think of a picture when they see the words, bringing them into the world of animation. The novel is different. In addition to writing pictures, it also includes lyrical sentences, rhetorical techniques and psychological descriptions of characters. These rhetorics should not be used in the script.

2. Don’t lack action arrangement

If it is not required by the plot, there should not be too much dialogue in the script, otherwise the whole story will become incoherent and the lack of action will appear to the audience. It felt like listening to an audiobook, so boring, that the show became a "soap opera".

You must know that what is written is film language, not literary language. A script that is only suitable for reading but not for watching is not a good script. Therefore, for an excellent movie script, the fewer dialogues, the stronger the image and the greater the impact.

For example, when writing about a person talking on the phone, it is best not to let him sit by the phone and just talk. If the plot requires it, you can ask him to stand up, or take a few steps while holding the phone, or add some actions that people usually do when talking on the phone, so as to avoid the dullness and monotony of the picture.

3. Do not create too many subplots

The plot is outside the main line. It is not advisable to arrange too many sub-lines, nor to arrange more than three main lines. When there is more than one main line, just To reduce the corresponding side lines.

If there are too many details in the creation of the script, there are many characters in the details, and many scenes are interspersed, which will complicate the story, and the audience may not understand it or the author. What theme do you want to express. If there are many important characters in a movie at the same time, and there are many stories between the characters, it will be impossible for the audience to distinguish the storyline of each character in a short period of time.