1. The script and Scriptwriting
How-to

2. How-to SCRIPT ELEMENTS 1) Transitions 2) Location 3) Description
4) Dialogue
5) Stage Directions

3. Element #2 - Location always in ALL CAPS has specific punctuation
gives a general, bullet description of where the scene is taking place, and is taken from the basic industry question, “What’s the location?”
tells up to three things: Site, Setting, Time
always in ALL CAPS
has specific punctuation
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4. Element #2 - Location
For example, Location tells you three things right away:
INT. TV STUDIO – DAY.
SITE SETTING TIME
These give the reader and the Production Manager quick and dirty ideas of when and where the scene is happening.

5. Element #2 - Location
For example, Location tells you three things right away:
INT. TV STUDIO – DAY.
SITE SETTING TIME
SITE: gives the general idea of where you will be filming. Site is important because it, alone, is the second thing looked at when a production manager goes through the script dividing it based on whether things are inside or outside.
INT. is inside
EXT. is outside

6. Element #2 - Location
For example, Location tells you three things right away:
INT. TV STUDIO – DAY.
SITE SETTING TIME
SETTING – the specific area you’ll be filming in. This will change as scene progresses, if necessary.

7. Element #2 - Location
For example, Location tells you three things right away:
INT. TV STUDIO – DAY.
SITE SETTING TIME
TIME – the either general or specific time scene will be taking place. This is usually either DAY for daytime, or NIGHT for nighttime. The Time tells a gaffer or a producer the answer to the question: “Do I need a generator and lots of lights, or not?” This is the first, and most important thing the production manager regards in dividing the script.

8. Element #2 - Location Do these have to be so general? Absolutely not.
INT. TV STUDIO – DAY.
SITE SETTING TIME
Do these have to be so general? Absolutely not.
Take a look at the following examples and see what the production company would have to do to accomplish what is written!

9. Element #2 - Location INT. LIBRARY – DAY.
Take a look at how much power is inherent in the Location with these examples:
INT. LIBRARY – DAY.
EXT. BOAT DECK, THE MIDDLE OF THE ATLANTIC – DAWN.
INT. MAD SCIENTIST’S LAB – EVENING.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY, THE YEAR 2365 – DAY.
INT. DEN – AFTERNOON.
What does the production company have to do to accomplish what is written in these simple lines?