Screenwriting : I've forgotten the basics by Max Boyce

Thanks Lyse... I'm scripting 10 short stories. I hope it's not old-timers disease I suffer from. Kiss and a hug for you ! - måx

We write on computers now and not typewriters... otherwise nothing has changed -- the studios still by crap!

Aloha Dan, Can you send me a few paragraphs of a leaner formatted script I can use as an example until I can pick up trotier's book. If you can't ... no huhu. Thanks måx

As I recall, a VO means the audience hears it but not the actors, whereas an OS is something where the actor speaking is unseen but is heard by the other actors.

THanks Dan --- What I think I knew and what I actually know (when 10-15 pages into script) are two different things

Thanks Dan---man, I tell you when I removed the camera directions the script really came alive for me. Constantly learning new things.

Literary fiction (drama) and horror/supernatural and throw in comedy for good measure

Max: Hi!

VOICE OVER means the VOICE could come from anywhere, distinctly NOT in the scene.

Voice from the DEAD - or MARS or GOD. A narrator is a (V.O.) most often [unless it's a guy breaking the fourth wall and speaking to us, the audience]

"OS" OFF SCREEN or BBC UK "OUT OF SHOT" - is just that. Means he's in the SCENE - but the CAMERA is not on him as he speaks those words. Comprendi?

"OFF SCREEN" but "ON STAGE" -- so -- "OUT OF SHOT" fits better in my book.