Question, please help.

[icerose]

I am really new at scriptwriting and I haven't see anywhere the rules of displaying text. Like in my script I have a count of days and this is what I put in my script.

BLACK SCREEN - DAY 1

Is that correct? Or is there something special you have to do for text? Or what? Also for subtitles, how do you do subtitles?

Thanks in advance.
Sara

[wskel]

You use Supers, like such

SUPER: "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE"

or

SUPERIMPOSE: "Subtitle"

[dpaterso]

...on what you want to do?

TITLE: Paris, France. 1944.

...displays the text on a black screen.

SCROLLING TITLE: France, 1944. The Allied advance meets determined German resistance in the hedgerows and trenches of this war-torn country. This is the story of one particular American infantry unit, commanded by a determined young officer who knows his men think him a coward just like his pappy. He will do anything to prove them wrong...

...blah blah and up she goes while we all fall asleep.

SUPER: Paris, France. 1944.

...displays the text over the picture, in the center of the screen.

SUBTITLE: Paris, France. 1944.

...displays the text over the picture, at the bottom of the screen.

With dialogue, you can use a parenthetical to indicate spoken language, and whether you want English translation subtitles to appear:

FRENCH SAILOR
(in French)
Now there is a pretty girl!

FRENCH SAILOR
(in French; subtitled)
Now there is a pretty girl!

GERMAN SOLDIER
(in German)
Halt, or I will shoot!

GERMAN SOLDIER
(in German; subtitled)
Halt, or I will shoot!

...and you don't have to include the foreign translation, just the English.

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

[icerose]

Thank you very much! I couldn't seem to find it anywhere and I didn't want to do it wrong. I really appreciate this. :Hug2:

Sara