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Screenplays have very strict formatting conventions. These serve two purposes: 1) They make the screenplay easy to read and understand for people familiar with the conventions. 2) They make a re...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T06:59:25Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Chris Sunami
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2019-12-08T06:59:25Z (almost 5 years ago)
Screenplays have very strict formatting conventions. These serve two purposes: 1) They make the screenplay easy to read and understand for people familiar with the conventions. 2) They make a reasonably consistent connection between screentime and script length. In this case the convention is a new block of text when you switch the person being focused on, the camera angle or from action to dialog (or vice versa). You can also make a break when one action completes, and another begins. It makes the script easier to read. However, it's a little unclear whether your example is a shooting script or a screenplay. If it is a shooting script the change in camera angle is not formatted properly. If it is a screenplay, you would generally just write the actions, and not put in things like POV changes unless they are very important (those are usually decisions left to the director).
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-09-08T16:22:35Z (about 7 years ago)
Original score: 3