I have a couple of scenes in my screenplay where the protagonist is in a chat room with a friend. How do I format their "conversation"?
In a screenplay, you are just telling what is being shown on the screen of the computer. So it would go like this...
Action
The computer screen was still, then a message appears reading "messengerguy123456: waz up?".
Something like that. At least I think, because so far, I have not heard of formatting chatroom dialogue. But I could be wrong.
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You should try going to www.imsdb.com and search for "Something's gotta give" and scroll down to page 62. There should be a few good examples there. Or if you know of any other movie that shows on-screen computer chatting, search for that script.
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