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Write to TV, 3rd Edition
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Write to TV, 3rd Edition

by Martie Cook
August 2020
Beginner
364 pages
10h 50m
English
Routledge
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13 FORMATTING FOR DRAMA

SAMPLE OUTLINE FOR DRAMA

Drama shows are written single-cam, film-style (see Chapter 9). The same rules apply in writing one-hour drama outlines and scripts as those in single-cam sitcoms.

Below you will find Act One of an outline for a drama script called, Abducted. It is written by the talented Kyle Scarselli, a former student in my Writing Television Pilots class at Emerson College. Kyle’s pilot is about a teenage girl who vanishes in a mysterious fire. It then becomes up to the girl’s friends and family, and a fireman with a curious past to uncover the truth behind her disappearance. Abducted is reprinted with Kyle’s permission. Give it a read and then we will look at the first Act of the script to see how Kyle went ...

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