TV Script Final Test: Friday, 5/19

Information you should know for the final test on scripts on Friday:
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• INT = interior (indoors) set
• EXT = exterior (outdoors) set
  
• Formatting basics:
  
  • Character names in the center in all caps
    
  • Dialogue is centered in a column that does not extend from one side of the page to the other, emotions in parenthesis, etc.
    
• What a subplot is
  
• The 6 sections of plot
  
• What happens in the three acts (what sections of plot go in Act 1, 2, and 3?)
  
• What information is given in a script
  
  • Character and set lists (no bios)
    
  • Dialogue
    
  • Action/Settings​
• What is a treatment? What information goes in a treatment?
  
  • Title of show and episode, author(s)
    
  • Logline
    
  • Character Bios
    
  • Episode/series overview/summary
    
• About how long is a script for a 30 minute episode (about 24-40 pages), 60 minute episode (about 50-80 pages).
  
• What is at the beginning of an episode
  
  • Teaser, recap sequence (if last episode ended on a cliffhanger), cold open, title sequence
    
• What is at the end of an episode?
  
  • Tagline, close credits