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  • Writing Letters Into Your Script

    I remember seeing this question posed before but forgot the answer.

    How do you format a letter in your screenplay read by the character to themselves? In other words, the audience only sees the letter.


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    Re: Writing Letters Into Your Script

    INT. THEATER - DAY

    INSERT: THE LETTER BEING READ

    As the audience members go to the bathroom and think about what they will wear to work next week.

    Fortune favors the bold - Virgil

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    • #3
      Re: Writing Letters Into Your Script

      Originally posted by Deus Ex Machine
      INT. THEATER - DAY

      INSERT: THE LETTER BEING READ

      As the audience members go to the bathroom and think about what they will wear to work next week.


      Hey, it worked in Casablanca...

      Seriously though, the letter is going to be 2 sentences long. More of a note actually.

      Half of the question is still unanswered. How is the actual note formatted in the script? Is it indented? Is it in italics?

      What is the proper form?

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      • #4
        Re: Writing Letters Into Your Script

        Whenever I have a handwritten note insert in a script, I leave a large white space after INSERT NOTE: and then write them out longhand once I print out copies. This adds a level of reality that I just know Hollywood readers appreciate.
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        • #5
          Re: Writing Letters Into Your Script

          INT. PLACE - DAY

          John opens the letter and reads:

          INSERT LETTER: "Dear John, this is a dear John letter. I'm so sorry my dear dear John but I have to tell you I hit a deer and killed it on my way to write this dear John Letter. Be a dear and remember the deer when you think of this dear John Letter."

          John closes the letter.

          ......................JOHN
          ........Oh dear, that poor deer.

          Fortune favors the bold - Virgil

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          • #6
            Re: Writing Letters Into Your Script

            Originally posted by Deus Ex Machine
            INT. PLACE - DAY

            John opens the letter and reads:

            INSERT LETTER: "Dear John, this is a dear John letter. I'm so sorry my dear dear John but I have to tell you I hit a deer and killed it on my way to write this dear John Letter. Be a dear and remember the deer when you think of this dear John Letter."

            John closes the letter.

            ......................JOHN
            ........Oh dear, that poor deer.

            INSERT LETTER:

            Dear John, this is a dear John letter. I'm so sorry my dear dear John but I have to tell you I hit a deer and killed it on my way to write this dear John Letter. Be a dear and remember the deer when you think of this dear John Letter.

            This is how I've done it...I center the note/letter and BOLD it to make it stand out.

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            • #7
              Re: Writing Letters Into Your Script

              I think I would italicize instead.

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              • #8
                Re: Writing Letters Into Your Script

                Italics do not photocopy well. It tends to look like Sanskrit after it's been copied a few times.
                Fortune favors the bold - Virgil

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