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160 Chapter Eleven: Script Presentation When the actor must change tone or move in the middle of a speech, the instructions are included at the appropriate place. EXAMPLE BIRE: Where are the children, Beli (PAUSE) (CALLING OFF, WORRIED) Beli...Beli, where are you ❺ Speech pause or break. An ellipsis (a series of full stops) is used to indicate a pause or a natural break in a character’s speech. EXAMPLE NARRATOR: And once again it is time for us to visit Geraldton....I’m sure you remember Geraldton....Well, it is time for us to go there once more. ❻ Technician’s directions. All directions for the technician (that is, directions regarding music and sound effects) are given in upper case letters and underlined, so that the technician can identify quickly those areas of the script which are his or her responsibility. The first word in a musical direction is “MUSIC,” and the first word in a sound effect direction is “FX.” This lets the technician know immediately whether to ready the music tape or the sound effects tape. EXAMPLE 1. MUSIC. THEME MUSIC UP :05. CROSS FADE TO 2. JOSEPH: Oh well, back to work. Every day it’s the same old thing... chop the wood; milk the cows. 3. FX. SOUND OF WOOD BEING CHOPPED. MIXED WITH FX. CATTLE MOOING IN DISTANCE ❼ End of page. A speech is never broken at the end of the page. If the whole speech will not fit on the page, then it should be transferred to the top of the next page. This is for the actors’ sake: Actors must turn their
Chapter Eleven: Script Presentation 161 ❽ heads briefly away from the microphone when they move from one page to the next, making it difficult to read lines. In the sample script on the next page, line 14, which is an incomplete speech, should have been moved to the next page. Remarks column. This is described following the sample script page. ❶ Series Title: Cut Your Coat According to Your Cloth Page 1 of 2 Episode #3 Draft: #2 Writer: Caber Gartaula Date: October 31 ❷ 1. BIR BAHADUR: (SLIGHTLY NERVOUS) What happened, did you not ask the health worker ❸ 2. BELI: I should not ask the Health Worker such things...rather I should do what the younger father-in-law told us to do. Do you know why your older sister-in-law had miscarriages 3. BIR BA: Why 4. BELI: He said that after conception Laxmi did not take enough nutritious food and enough rest. 5. BIR BA: Forget the past. Since you are at home, why don’t you take care of her ❹ 6. BELI: No, no, something has happened to me like what has happened to older sister-in-law. (VERY SHY) It is two months.... 7. BIR BA: VERY HAPPY) Is it so It is two months already.Have you told anybody else 8. BELI: Yes, other women know women’s business...only you... ❺ 9. BIR BA: And now I know too.... I am very happy. ❻ 10. MUSIC. SCENE CHANGE MUSIC. BRIEF :05 11. FX. NOISE OF FRYING AND STIRRING VEGETABLE CURRY. 12. BELI: Why are you in the kitchen so early, older sister-in-law 13. LAXMI: Today I am preparing food early for the father-in-law only. ❼ 14. MAYADEVI: Your father-in-law has to go to the fields early, so ❽ 11
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