![]() Many writers write in broken, incomplete sentences. Narrative description is mostly written in sentence format, but there’s no obligation to write in complete sentences. What does narrative description look like? ![]() Sounds or other audio that aren’t dialogue Things that are happening in the scene in the larger environment What the characters are physically doing in the scene What the characters look like (characterization) Here’s some of what you’ll write in the narrative description:ĭetails of the physical scene, past what’s included in the scene heading This means that narrative description will almost certainly be the bulk of your script, and it’s pretty easy to argue that narrative description is the most important part of a screenplay. The purpose of narrative description is to describe to the reader what would be seen and heard in a motion picture. Note that many people refer to narrative description as ‘action’, which is a mostly appropriate term as well. In this article, we’re looking at narrative description, which is the bulk of the screenplay, and provides all the details for what is seen on-screen, as well as much of what is heard. In the previous script format article, we learned about scene headings and how they are meant to (very) concisely inform the reader’s mental projection of the forthcoming scene. SCRIPT FORMAT 3: NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION (ACTION)
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