Help me format/describe this...

[Norm]

Not unrelated to this point, and something to think about to either add to the example or to use the following as a substitute -- in 500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader, Jennifer Leach has a number of dandy hints to help you get it right.

Point 25:

In the opening of your script, when the reader's mind is a blank slate because she knows nothing about your story, adding a brief line or two of description immediately following the slugline can communicate the milieu. The audience will pick up on this through the music, opening, credits, lighting, and the director's style, but the Hollywood Reader will understand this only if you tell her.

EXT. JEROME, ARIZONA -- DAY 1895

Dusty, bawdy, temporary, a hillside mining town where everyone gets rich or dies trying.

[DavidK]

Originally Posted by Scriptonian

if one script page is about equal to one minute of film you should have the series of shots (eight or more) almost filling up the page, rather than a one-line sentence. No?

No. Just to clear this up, the minute-per-page has nothing to do with how much screen time results from one page of a script.

It's a rough guide which means that over the course of an entire script, the total screen time often works out at about the same number of minutes as pages in the script. That's all it means.

It's a rough guide and varies according to the style of script and whether it is action intensive or dialogue intensive.

But let's not discuss this any further because it's a pointless distraction of no real use to writers. Just write a script somewhere between about 85 and 125 pages, whatever it takes to deliver a compelling movie story.

[instant_karma]

It's always the innocent threads that get abused the worst

[TwoBrad Bradley]

Watch Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris".

Sorry - I don't know how the screenplay is formatted. But the writer is the director, so ...