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Defining and using script terminology

Defining and using script terminology

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Defining and using script terminology

Every industry has its jargon. It's that shorthand language that enables quick communication. Perhaps you've overheard a waitress in a diner repeat your order to the cook using words that were nothing like what you had just told her. It's the same with video production. We have words and abbreviations that we use in writing scripts that would mean nothing to someone outside of the business. So we're going to talk about script terms, and I'm going to use the template that's included in the exercise files. And there'll be more about these terms when we get to the movie, writing the first draft. But the first term isn't really a script term, it's really just a word processing document term. And that is Header. I think it's important that every script have a header on every page. Because as pages get separated, this makes it easier to put them back together. Now a style that I've created for the video script template includes the graphics, music and sound effects style. Each of these look…

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