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Thursday 21st January 2010 9:59pm
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Quote: Marooned @ January 21 2010, 4:50 PM GMT
Not really.
If you mean you didn't read it, perhaps you should try.
If you mean you didn't understand it, I mean you can't/shouldn't put them side by side on a production script (i.e. a professional script). People will hate you for it. The professional way is to have dialogue then description or vice versa (that means, the other way around). How you choose to do it will depend on the information being imparted. If the visual is more important than the dialogue, I presume the duialogue won't be too important, therefore I suggest you write the action and specify in your description that the "following dialogue" plays out underneath the sequence. Or vice versa (see above).
Does this make sense to you?
Don't put information side by side because people don't like it. I wouldn't even put dialogue side by side (you can do it for theatre, but TV and film use scripts differently, but that's another question). Therefore, I'd specify in the action boxes that both following speeches happen simultaneously.
Keep your info on the page linear, i.e. in a line, one piece of info followed by another, not all information side by side.
Ultimately it's up to you to present your script how you wish. I'm just passing on what I've learnt from working in the industry.