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Write Your Way into Animation and Games
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Write Your Way into Animation and Games

by Christy Marx
November 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
418 pages
12h 28m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 1 Animation Terminology

 

 

Christy Marx

 

Most of the scriptwriting terms employed in animation scripts are the same as those employed in live-action scripts, with perhaps a few exceptions. Here are the terms you want to know before we move ahead to discuss script format.

They are followed by a further glossary of animation-related terms that will be useful to you.

 

SCRIPT TERMS

ACTION

The ACTION, or description, paragraph occurs immediately below the SLUGLINE and is just what you think it is—a line or paragraph that serves any number of functions: to describe a setting or location, to describe what actions the character in the shot is taking, to set mood or tone, to indicate sounds, to give certain specific camera-movement directions, ...

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ISBN: 9780240813431