The craft of writing
for games, TV and movies,
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Q. Do you have to write into phone) after every line of dialogue into a phone?Well, I don't like to do that. However a showrunner friend of mine insists that it keeps things clear. So I actually do it even though I don't like to.
JOHN
(into phone)
I'm talking into the phone.
A professor of mine absolutely requires that I do that.
However, I put (INTO PHONE) on the character line so it doesn't take up space:
JOHN (INTO PHONE)
I'm talking into the phone.
If we hear the offscreen person's dialog, then her character name would be followed by (ON PHONE) or, old school, (FILTER):
JANE (ON PHONE)
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