- Consider the audience.
- Clearly note speaker changes and non-spoken cues like the way someone is speaking or external noises.
- The current speaker’s name is frequently all caps followed by a colon before the words being spoken:
DR. ROBERTS: This is my pet fern. - External sounds and descriptions of the way someone is speaking are frequently in brackets:
JANE [giggling]: What did you name it?
- The current speaker’s name is frequently all caps followed by a colon before the words being spoken:
- Describe necessary visual content like on-screen only text (opening and closing credits), scene changes, important gestures and observable emotional states.
- Recommended line lengths are between 30 and 40 characters. However, it’s more important they occur in logical places; at the ends of phrases or when a different person starts talking.
