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teejay

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Tv writing,i have a script that i want screenplay to tv series can any body help me by giving me tv writing format

Posted : 21/06/2009 4:58 am

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The format is the same as a the feature film format.

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Posted : 21/06/2009 11:26 am

teejay

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Thanks but is there any different in writing tv script and feature film

Posted : 21/06/2009 1:43 pm

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The format is the same for a TV script and a feature film script.

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Posted : 22/06/2009 12:10 am

rjschwarz

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I could be wrong, but I got the impression tv format in the UK is different. In the US there is no difference.

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Posted : 23/06/2009 10:42 am

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rj, do you have any examples of the difference?

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Posted : 23/06/2009 9:04 pm

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No but everytime I've seen a british tv show written up anywhere it's been in more of a transcript format. There shows are not as readily available though so they might actually be transcripts which is why I put the qualifier.

I have a book of Black Adder screenplays and another with Red Dwarf screenplays and they are both in a trancript style format rather than the movie standard.

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Posted : 24/06/2009 8:46 am

bjdzyak

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quote:

Originally posted by teejay

Tv writing,i have a script that i want screenplay to tv series can any body help me by giving me tv writing format

Take a look here: ?url? http://www.cvisual.com/film-techniques/film-script-templates.asp?/url?for examples.

I also highly recommend the website ?url? http://www.wordplayer.com?/url? and the book "Film Scriptwriting, Second Edition: A Practical Manual (Paperback)
by Dwight V Swain and JOYE R SWAIN" ?url? http://www.amazon.com/Film-Scriptwriting-Second-Practical-Manual/dp/0240511905/ref=cm_syf_dtl_top_3_rdssss0?/url?

Good luck!

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