Script for Documentary

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I've written docs too and David's advice is bang on. There's (or used to be) a version of Final Draft AV which formats in two columns, but I've always used a two column table in a wordprocessor.

The only thing I'd add is that if there are interviews and they need to cover specific points so the info is out there, and that info needs to be part of the documentary narrative at a particular point, I generally just put:

INTERVIEWEE A:
(quotes to the effect of)
- Point A
- Point B
- Point C

Then it's up to the interviewer to extract those points in the interviewee's own words, and the editor to slot them in at the appropriate point. Generally they didn't come out exactly as envisaged so some post-prod tweaking to VO and sometimes structure was necessary.