Writing 2530A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spec Script, Log Line, Minivan
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Main difference between pilot outline and script is that dialogue is paraphrase: dialogue is not written out like on a script, shane puts up his hand. Pitch bible: (look at unidentified for an example) Don"t have it over 10 pages (9 ish) In the opening of every episode, if there was an opening (vo) or text on screen, that is the purpose of this mini logline. Something that becomes the mantra of the show goes a bit deeper. Bodies, over the course of the episode, find out who they are how they ended up here. Longer (one paragraph) description: in unidentified, the rcmp"s missing and unidentified victims. Task force (muv) investigates the most difficult cases to crack: those in which the victim"s identity is completely unknown. Sutton, the muv uses cutting edge forensic methods to first discover who the mysterious jane or john doe is etc. etc.