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This is amazing. Anyone that has written a script, what is the significance of words in all caps? Breaking Bad: Oh, by the way, he’s wearing a GAS MASK. That,
by cityzen 4y ago
This is amazing. Anyone that has written a script, what is the significance of words in all caps?
Breaking Bad:
Oh, by the way, he’s wearing a GAS MASK. That, and white jockey UNDERPANTS. Nothing else.
The Dark Knight:
A man in a CLOWN MASK holding a SMOKING SILENCED PISTOL ejects a shell casing. This is DOPEY. He turns to a second man, HAPPY, also in clown mask, who steps forward with a CABLE LAUNCHER, aims at a lower roof across the street and FIRES a cable across. Dopey secures the line to an I-beam line- CLAMP on- sends a KIT BAG out then steps OUT the window...
- soulofmischief 4y agoThese are all key characters or visual elements, often capitalized when introduced for the first time. Ultimately, convention is left up to the individual screenwriter, so you will find inconsistencies in application of capitalization.
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- detaro 4y agoHighlighting people/props the first time they appear and/or if they should be especially prominent, and key actions. E.g. notice how in the second example Dopey is only all-caps the first time, not when he is mentioned again 2 sentences later. And "FIRES" is highlighted, but "ejects", "turns to" are not.
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- defrost 4y agoHe walks past shelf upon which we see Chekhov's GUN . .
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