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Who invented the script format? (currently 629 views) |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Posted: April 15th, 2006, 1:01pm |
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LocationNorway Posts208 Posts Per Day 0.03 |
....just wondering. |
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Higgonaitor |
Posted: April 15th, 2006, 1:09pm |
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Location(40.717261, -73.600087) Posts934 Posts Per Day 0.13 |
Actually, it happened long ago in a small town known simply as: "Chival Timago", right off the coast of Spain. Anywho, a young lad of about seven or so was buying an ice cream bar from a local vendor. The vendors name was "Vertigo" and he only had three fingers on is left hand. Fortunately he had eight on his right hand, so by people bad at arithmatic he appeared to be a normal ten fingered citizen. This of course has nothing to do with the formation of the script format.
I suggest you look it up on google. |
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Alfred Hitchcock |
Posted: April 15th, 2006, 1:16pm |
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New Drama is life with the dull bits left out.
LocationNorway Posts208 Posts Per Day 0.03 |
funny. that's....that's funny. hey let me give you eh..a hand. clap....clap...clap. |
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Kotton |
Posted: April 15th, 2006, 1:25pm |
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LocationWhen?Where? Posts110 Posts Per Day 0.02 |
Hitch, No 'one' person, necessarily , INVENTED the format.It actually evolved based on the needs of the production companies and studios through the ages. The roots of the format are grown from theatrical productions, though.If you check out some scripts past and compare them with the present, you will notice numerous changes in style and accepted presentation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenplay |
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Alfred Hitchcock |
Posted: April 15th, 2006, 1:32pm |
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New Drama is life with the dull bits left out.
LocationNorway Posts208 Posts Per Day 0.03 |
ah...i thought Shakespere invented it. |
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shelbyoops |
Posted: April 15th, 2006, 1:54pm |
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You're all wrong! A long time ago a man very high up in hollywood thought, "hmm, it would be funny to fuck with screenwriters everywhere" so he made all these crazy demands hiding under the name 'formatting'. But that was long ago and we have software to do it for us...That sick guy.... |
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dogglebe |
Posted: April 16th, 2006, 5:50am |
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ah...i thought Shakespere invented it. |
Stageplay and screenplay formatting are very different. Phil |
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R.E._Freak |
Posted: April 16th, 2006, 8:08pm |
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Someone who is sitting in a small 8 by 10 room right now who was driven insane thinking about what he would do with all the royalty money. |
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-Ben- |
Posted: April 16th, 2006, 8:19pm |
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LocationNunya Posts397 Posts Per Day 0.06 |
Quoted Text Stageplay and screenplay formatting are very different. |
Not really. I mean, here's play format: MRS NONAME WALKS OVER AND PLACES THE MONEY DOWN. NONAME: Bla bla bla Screenplay: Mrs. Noname walks over and palces the money down. NONAME Bla bla bla. |
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greg |
Posted: April 16th, 2006, 8:40pm |
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LocationSan Diego, California Posts1680 Posts Per Day 0.24 |
Go read something by Shakespeare. That's play formatting. |
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-Ben- |
Posted: April 16th, 2006, 8:46pm |
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LocationNunya Posts397 Posts Per Day 0.06 |
Well what I type was modern paly formatting. |
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greg |
Posted: April 16th, 2006, 8:50pm |
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Old Timer Oh Hi
LocationSan Diego, California Posts1680 Posts Per Day 0.24 |
The format you used looks like something out of a Mike Myers script |
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-Ben- |
Posted: April 16th, 2006, 9:38pm |
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LocationNunya Posts397 Posts Per Day 0.06 |
Maybe they made it because, on typewriter's it was the easier way to write "one page=one min"? |
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Bill |
Posted: April 17th, 2006, 6:08am |
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Gary Carey's biography of Anita Loos, published by Bloomsbury Publishing 1988. One of Hollywood's first screenwriters. 1893-1981. |
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