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More Research Continued

More Research Continued

It’s the same research as yesterday. Reading television and movie scripts. Looking for how everyone else writes them. Comparing them with Industry Standards. Just didn’t have enough space to continue writing it yesterday. What does that mean? It means that I try to write about a page a day for each one of my blog entries.

Sometimes it can be a little bit more than a page. But it’s only about one paragraph or two aka about ten to twelve more lines. And sometimes it’s a little bit less than a page. Usually, if it’s less than a page it’s because I don’t have anything to write about, I’m not feeling well, or both. Today it’s kind of both.

I’m still not feeling very well. It may be a tab better than yesterday. But not by much. If I am any better. Whether or not I was better, I still didn’t feel like doing any scanning of my pencil handwriting into my laptop. So, I decided to do some more reading script research.

There are two other things that I’m wondering about when it comes to my scripts that are getting mixed reactions with my script reading. One is the number of spaces between sentences. Is it one or two? The other wonder is the number of spaces between scenes.

Some scripts show one space between sentences and some show two. I noticed this in both television scripts and movie scripts. Both draft and Production scripts. Can understand when it comes to Production scripts. But not drafts. Which is it? Is there an Industry Standard for this wonder? I have heard and read there is.

What about television scripts vs movie scripts? Is there one way for each one of them aka one space for movie scripts and two for television scripts or vice versa? This same set of questions replies to my second wondering. Is it one or two spaces between the end of one scene and the beginning of the next scene?

In the television and movie scripts that I have been reading the last couple of days, it has gone both ways too. Is there an Industry Standard between television scripts and movie scripts in this wondering too? If not, then what is it? Is it up to the individual writer's preference?

I haven’t done any transcribing of my pencil handwriting to my laptop yet. So, I haven’t written anything about the spaces between sentences. But I have been adding two spaces in my head. I have done it between scenes, though. It has been two spaces instead of one for them.