Sometimes you can see in movies that somebody is on the phone with someone and you can't hear the one talking in the receiver (there is silence when they talk). I want to do it in my script, but I couldn't find how to formt it and I came up with something like this, idk if it's okay:
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I recently had the same issue, and googled "screenplay format phone conversation." -- lots of stuff, like this:
www.scriptreaderpro.com
My first instinct was something like this:
EMILY
Yea I know. electricity
(pause, listens)
Oh you're the water one.
(pause)
...
But the guy in the link doesn't like this. Maybe just eliipses
EMILY
Yea I know. electricity...Oh your'e the water one...
Or maybe a mix of the two, with just one first parenthetical. Either way, the point, I think, is to just make it like regular dialogue. The "*the caller talks"* line is almost certainly not correct, using up, as the guy says, "valuable real estate."
My problem was with a two-sided phone conversation, and the answer is to establish the first scene, with a scene heading. Talk. Then the second scene heading. Talk. then type, in caps to the left, INTERCUT, and just go back and forth.
There is, I think, an elegant solution to these little formatting questions, usually following established conventions, so that you sound professional. You'll get there
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My first instinct was something like this:
EMILY
Yea I know. electricity
(pause, listens)
Oh you're the water one.
(pause)
...
But the guy in the link doesn't like this. Maybe just eliipses
EMILY
Yea I know. electricity...Oh your'e the water one...
Or maybe a mix of the two, with just one first parenthetical. Either way, the point, I think, is to just make it like regular dialogue. The "*the caller talks"* line is almost certainly not correct, using up, as the guy says, "valuable real estate."
My problem was with a two-sided phone conversation, and the answer is to establish the first scene, with a scene heading. Talk. Then the second scene heading. Talk. then type, in caps to the left, INTERCUT, and just go back and forth.
There is, I think, an elegant solution to these little formatting questions, usually following established conventions, so that you sound professional. You'll get there
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You got a like from Ms. Lesemann, so she agreed with youYou're welcome. But I don't know about "anwers" lol. I am not (unlike Ms. Lesemann) a professional. Just another would-be, putzing along.
Perfect interpretationYou got a like from Ms. Lesemann, so she agreed with you
I always get a warm feeling when Ms. Lessemann likes something I post. But . . . sometimes I'm afraid she just likes everybody, and find myself wondering, how much. As much as, say, sfoster? Nate? ()
Myself, I should "like" things more, but am a little reluctant. I see people getting in trouble for liking things, although, I guess, this is usually for liking Nazis and stuff. Oh well.
)Myself, I should "like" things more, but am a little reluctant. I see people getting in trouble for liking things, although, I guess, this is usually for liking Nazis and stuff. Oh well.
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