List of Generic Scenes When Writing Any Script
1. Establishing Shot(s) or scene - Time & Place
2. Chase Scene - Action
3. Romance Scene - About Relationships
4. Confrontation Scene - Opposing forces coming together which creates a conflict.
5. Comedic Scene - Humor
6. Tragedy - Such as a death or a sudden, unexpected twist or action.
7. Suspense Scene
8. Mystery Scene
9. Party Scene
10. Twists in Storyline
11. Family Relations Scene - Establishes strength of family bond, and also creates tense situations filled with drama.
12. Monologue - Character looks and talks at camera. One actors(characters) thoughts
13. Dialogue
14. Exposition Scene - Sets up info
15. Climax - highest tension
16. Combat Scene - physical conflict such as pushing, punching, stabbing, shooting, etc.
17. Epiphany - Realization or understanding of scene.
18. Flashback or flash ahead, like foreshadowing and such.
19. Resolution Scene - tension is reduced as a problem or certain situation is solved or understood.
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The Format for Radio Production Scripts
1. Script content s typed across the page so as to allow for approximately one-inch left and one 1/4th inch right margins.
2. Dialogue occupies a column between 28 and 72 spaces. Name of the speaking character (in UPPER CASE) is in line with and to the left of his/her first line. Instructions as to how lines should be spoken (if necessary) appear in parentheses and UPPER CASE immediately to the right of his or her name, preceding the line itself. Dialogue is typed in regular upper and lower case letters.
3. Lines of dialogue, music cues, and sound effects cues are numbered along the left margin of the page at ten spaces. They are numbered consecutively throughout the entire script.
4. Music and sound effects cues and descriptions.
5. Use underlining for all music and sound effects cues.
6. Use parentheses to enclose -
Any material inserted into a line which not part of the line itself (directions for reading the line, music, and sound effects notations), and descriptions of music wherever they occur.
7. Use double spacing throughout the script. Single spacing is not used in radio scripts.
8. Use UPPER CASE for -
ALL UNSPOKEN INSTRUCTIONS within a line of dialogue, ALL MUSIC CUES, ALL SOUND EFFECTS CUES, and NAMES OF CHARACTERS, except where these are to be spoken.
9. Words are not broken at the end of a line and continued on the following line (although hyphenated words may be).
10. Lines should not be broken at the bottom of a page and carried over to the following page. Whenever possible, a new cue should commence a new page.
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