billwill
Wednesday 9th April 2008 7:20am [Edited]
North London
6,162 posts
Quote: Aaron @ April 8 2008, 4:48 PM BST
I really don't understand that. Ridiculous! No such Frenchess here.
It's mostly a BBC thing. Since the BBC is not allowed to advertise, they don't allow off-site links on their forums.
Quote: Deferenz @ April 8 2008, 4:55 PM BST
The ones I have seen are in a general kind of script format but not identical to the way you would prep it on script software. As someone still learning the trade I try to see how the 'experts' do it, so personally I want to see every CUT TO, every bit of description, the spacing used, the parenthesis used etc.
Hopefully the other books you mention may do this and I will have a look at them. The only place I have found actual real sitcom scripts is BBC's writers room. Searches for sitcom scripts (not transcripts from fans) have dranw a blank.
Def.
If you just want to see the formatting, see examples on the BBC writersroom site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/scriptsmart_formats.shtml
or on my site:
http://www.datahighways.net/dhl/toolkit.htm
where I've put brief examples of most types.
also:
It's quite hard to actually find full scripts on the internet as it seems most authors want to publish them as books for sale.
but I found a few for people to read:
http://www.televisionwriting.com/pdf/GirlfriendsScript1.pdf
http://www.televisionwriting.com/pdf/NikolaScript3.pdf
And the incomplete scripts that were the Last Laugh competion are still on-line.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/tv/lastlaugh/dl/last_laugh_book.pdf
Note that the formatting of the Last Laugh book scripts is unusual, not the normal Film format (1-camera) nor the 3-camera studio format. The BBC just chose to use a compact stage type format to make the book physically smaller.
