Sunday, June 12, 2005

Q. I am doing a spec for a 30 min sitcom, one camera, no commercials. I tried using the sitcom format in Final Draft. Its weird. The action writing is in all caps, the dialogue is double-spaced.

If it's a sitcom you should use sitcom format. If it's a single camera comedy, I'm no expert, but I imagine you could use regular script format. On Naked Josh, which was a comic drama, we used regular script format, not sitcom format.

I hate all caps. Hard to read. But you have to use the format of the form you're writing in.

12:08 PM

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Single camera sitcoms use standard film format, with act breaks, as in hour dramas. See below:

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/ER_Motherhood.pdf

the cable hour drama Sopranos uses standard film format, but it doesn't have act breaks b/c it doesn't have commercials. If you're doing a Curb spec, standard film format should be fine.

By  Anonymous, at 7:26 PM  

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