Script

By reading this script, we noticed that he layout is quite unusual in that the main text is centred and the rest is left aligned. We believe this is done because it puts attention on the main parts which the director would follow. Also it breaks each section up into scenes, for example one angle of the hand/location, then one of tools being picked up by the character.

There is no dialogue in this particular script, but if there were it would be set out with the characters names in bold and centred.

The description of the setting is very detailed in that it tells you the lighting for example it says "dark, fire lit, ash dusted place". Also, it's quite detailed about what is in it, for example props such as "grimey workglove", "four fishing knives", "spidery sorts of apparatus". I believe they do this because it gives extra detail as to how to set the scene and what is needed and how they should look like.

The description of the actor himself is not given, but instead it talks a lot about his hand, and the opening follows his hand and what he is doing. For example, it starts to describe his hand "dirty and nail bitten", then it leads on to his hand picking up a glove and slicing the fingertips off of it. He is then seen picking up knives which gives us an indication of what the character is going to be like. We never get any direct information about him, just implications.

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Here is a script example for how the layout & dialogue should be, and what fonts & margins should be included.