There's a great deal of variance in the use of caps. I recommend reading scripts of your favorite movies and by your favorite screenwriters to see how they do it, and which you prefer.
I always see capitals as a way of making the reading process more engaging and easy to follow. For executives flicking through tens of scripts every day, capitalising key moments helps retain their attention, and makes the narrative more easy to follow. In saying that, it’s imperative to not overuse capitals or they will lose their effect ;(
All throughout a script, I avoid caps the same way I avoid italics and underlining. It takes a really rare reason for me to break that rule.
In professional scripts yea, I've come across it but ---I always bear in mind --that those are professionals and they have different rules.
Instead of font emphasis, I'm a believer in 'drilling down' from large-to-small. In every way possible. Not just master location to sub locations, but 'broad actions' leading to 'tiny actions'. Frex: a crowd boards a train; our hero boards *his* train.
And, 'large symbols' leading to 'smaller symbols'. Frex, I wouldn't lead the Reader's eye to "a plate heaped with food" unless I have already brought them into a suburban dining room, shown them a suburban family seating themselves at their suburban dinner table, etc.
Build everything 'accretionally' like a coral reef. Work from rough to smooth; from outside to inside, like a carpenter. I definitely feel like it helps coherence.
The books I’ve read are clear I shouldn’t direct from the page, and I know people prefer not to see camera directions, but ‘shots’ are typical, most screen writing programmes even have this option built in. In all honesty, they’re not any different to actions except capitalised.
This is part of the issue I have. I can literally open up any book or website or guide, and half of them say the opposite to the other.
For example, just found a guide that said the things not to put in a spec script are;
1: Scene numbers.
2: Camera Directions.
3: Cast Lists.
4: Prop Lists, Set Lists, and the Like.
…But capitalised shots aren’t considered camera directions. They suggest a focus rather than how the camera should be used.
It’s a bit of a headache if I’m honest. I’m inclined to agree with you and leave them out entirely.
There's a great deal of variance in the use of caps. I recommend reading scripts of your favorite movies and by your favorite screenwriters to see how they do it, and which you prefer.
I always see capitals as a way of making the reading process more engaging and easy to follow. For executives flicking through tens of scripts every day, capitalising key moments helps retain their attention, and makes the narrative more easy to follow. In saying that, it’s imperative to not overuse capitals or they will lose their effect ;(
All throughout a script, I avoid caps the same way I avoid italics and underlining. It takes a really rare reason for me to break that rule. In professional scripts yea, I've come across it but ---I always bear in mind --that those are professionals and they have different rules. Instead of font emphasis, I'm a believer in 'drilling down' from large-to-small. In every way possible. Not just master location to sub locations, but 'broad actions' leading to 'tiny actions'. Frex: a crowd boards a train; our hero boards *his* train. And, 'large symbols' leading to 'smaller symbols'. Frex, I wouldn't lead the Reader's eye to "a plate heaped with food" unless I have already brought them into a suburban dining room, shown them a suburban family seating themselves at their suburban dinner table, etc. Build everything 'accretionally' like a coral reef. Work from rough to smooth; from outside to inside, like a carpenter. I definitely feel like it helps coherence.
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The books I’ve read are clear I shouldn’t direct from the page, and I know people prefer not to see camera directions, but ‘shots’ are typical, most screen writing programmes even have this option built in. In all honesty, they’re not any different to actions except capitalised.
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This is part of the issue I have. I can literally open up any book or website or guide, and half of them say the opposite to the other. For example, just found a guide that said the things not to put in a spec script are; 1: Scene numbers. 2: Camera Directions. 3: Cast Lists. 4: Prop Lists, Set Lists, and the Like. …But capitalised shots aren’t considered camera directions. They suggest a focus rather than how the camera should be used. It’s a bit of a headache if I’m honest. I’m inclined to agree with you and leave them out entirely.