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Desmond
Posted: September 16th, 2022, 3:02am Report to Moderator
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If I have in line instructions

(She got a shock and jumped out of her chair)
Do you capitalise the first word as a sentence?

And when continuing onto the next page which is right?

BRIDGET (CONT) (V/O) or
BRIDGET  (V/O) (CONT)

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ChrisBodily
Posted: September 16th, 2022, 5:43am Report to Moderator
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To answer your second question, your software should do this automatically. Preferably it's V.O. rather than V/O.

BRIDGET (V.O.) (cont'd)

Is usually how your software would render it.

As for your first question, I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about parentheticals (angrily, wryly, sing-song, proudly, etc.)?


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Desmond
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This is what I mean
Should it be
(Looking over at Stewart) or (looking over at Stewart)
(Being a bit coy) or (being a bit coy)


INT. ROSIE’S HOUSE - ROSIE’S LIVING ROOM – MORNING

STEWART and LUCY are on the sofa. STEWART playing a game on his mobile phone while Lucy is reading the morning papers.

LUCY
It says here the moon is in alignment with Venus, so you may be getting fonder of someone you like. Don’t be shy and take the plunge.
(Looking over at Stewart)
That’s you and Bridget to a tee, and you do fancy her.

STEWART
(Being a bit coy)
No I don’t.
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Matthew Taylor
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They are parentheticals and you don’t need to capitalise.

I would shorten them though (coy) instead of (being a bit coy)

I’d also only use them to direct where a character is looking if it’s really necessary, above brief scene doesn’t seem to be


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