As far as the length is concerned, in general, the length of each episode of TV series plus the broadcast time of the opening and closing credits is about 50 minutes, and the script is about 15000 to 20000 words, including more than 70 to 100 scenes, ranging from a dozen or even several scenes. There are also longer ones, such as the recent Korean drama "What is Love", each episode is more than 90 minutes. Some series of short plays, each episode is only more than 20 minutes, and the script is only about six or seven thousand words.
As far as the requirements for scripts are concerned, playwrights and directors always have different perspectives. Playwrights often have a strong desire to express themselves, hoping that their plays will be more literary and readable. The director pays attention to shooting, the plot and structure of the script, and the visual effect, and its literary color is often stripped in shooting. The different requirements of playwrights and directors for scripts have also formed two literary script styles, one paying attention to literariness and the other paying attention to camera sense.
1, literary script
Features:
(1) The script is not only available for shooting (customarily called "patability"), but also attaches great importance to the rhetoric and literary talent of the written language. It not only provides a basis for directors to shoot, but also becomes a kind of written reading for ordinary readers.
(2) The paragraphs of a script are often divided by the temporal and spatial changes of the scene, but each time the temporal and spatial changes do not indicate the time and place, but are naturally reflected by the description of the plot.
(3) The shooting technique is not clearly defined (such as "close-up", "advance" and "fade-out"), but the content is implied by the direct description of the artistic image.
[Example 1]
192165438+10 one day in the afternoon.
London, on the Thames, on the dock.
In winter in London, in the drizzle, the dense fog gradually dispersed, but the moisture still came from time to time. Among the people who picked up the boat, Xu Zhimo was wearing a long dark gray coat, a raincoat, a hat and a turned-up collar. He has a long-handled umbrella in his right hand and a bunch of flowers in his left. Aside, Liu Shuhe stood, also wearing warm clothes.
After a while, a black car approached and stopped. Chen Xiying leaned out of the window and raised his hand to say hello to Xu Zhimo: "Zhimo, I'll park the car first." Say that finish, the car slowly drove to the parking lot.
Parked, Chen Xiying coming towards Xu Zhimo and Liu Shuhe.
Xu Zhimo: "Come, come, Brother Xiying! Uncle Ho, this is Mr. Chen Xiying. We agreed to introduce you today. "
Liu Shuhe went to Chen Xiying: "I've heard so much about you! Shima already said,
You are the nephew of the famous Mr Wu Zhilao and Mr Wu Zhihui! "
Chen Xiying: "I have known the names of my uncle and brother for a long time in Chen Xiying. I feel very honored to meet you today. "
Xu Zhimo: "Ok, ok, why are you so polite?" We should take care of each other in the future. "
Liu Jiaohe: "We can also be regarded as' neither of us is happy-forever'.
No, that's not true. Shima's family will be here soon. He has not become a human being, and he is no longer with us! "
2. Focus on the script of the lens
Features:
(1) The screenwriter regards providing filming for the director as his only responsibility and purpose, and is not prepared to make his own script into a written reading. Therefore, the direct sketch of action or picture is often adopted, which is not literary and unreadable.
(2) The natural paragraphs of the text are divided into scenes (sometimes even refined into shots). At the beginning of each paragraph, a special line is used to indicate the field (or mirror) number, the location and time of the scene, and so on.
[Example 2]
(1) Campus (outdoor)
Looking down, rich trees and antique buildings.
I saw a lake passing through a large forest.
The lake is sparkling and the willows are lingering.
On the bench by the lake, lovers who live alone, students who are immersed in reading.
Opposite, several red brick buildings, from far to near.
(2) Computer room (internal day)
Qi Xue Zhu sat in front of the computer and looked at the computer screen intently.
Slender fingers danced skillfully on the keyboard.
Several lines of English letters appeared on the screen.
JiXueZhu looked at the screen and whispered.
Subtitle: Mr. Qi: We received your email on April 16, in which you rejected the admission opportunity and scholarship offered by our school. We deeply regret this and wish you good luck. ...
Qi Xue Zhu gawked at the screen, raised his hands, put them in his hair, shook his head, and muttered in pain and confusion: Oh, my God, what the hell is going on? ...
The voice is getting louder and louder, echoing in the building.
(3) Classroom (internal day)
Feng Xiao stood on the podium facing the students, and Kan Kan spoke: ... In my opinion, "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you." This sentence contains all the moral concepts of China people. No matter what we do, we should put ourselves in others' shoes. What you don't want, others certainly don't want it. take for example ...
The sound of a pager. Xiao Feng shut up and bowed his head with a frown.
Under the stage, the students turned around and focused on one classmate.
The students flushed and bowed their heads and turned off their pagers.
Xiao Feng smiled indifferently: For example, if you are a teacher and you are standing on the podium at the moment, then you certainly don't want to hear this kind of voice.
The pager in the classroom rang again.
Xiao Feng stopped and frowned at the students below: Whose pager? Can you turn it off?
The students looked at each other, and someone took out a pager to watch.
Xiao Feng looks very strict: Turn off all pagers!
Some students laughed: teacher, it's your pager!
Xiao Feng reached out and touched her waist, took out her pager and smiled awkwardly: Oh, I'm sorry!
The students looked at Feng Xiaoxiao.
(3) The shooting method is often clearly defined technically, and even many more specific instructions are given to other creative personnel of the film crew (director, acting, shooting, recording, artist-).
[Example 3]
(1) position. Thames estuary, sunset. The wind screamed like a ghost. Foresight. Pip, a little boy, runs along the banks of the estuary. He ran along the winding path to the camera, which took pictures with a follow-up lens. There is a gallows beside the path to show the prisoners' bodies to the public. Pip looked up as he passed the gallows. Gradually.
(2) location. Churchyard, pip's middle shot. He climbed over the collapsed stone wall with a bunch of holly branches. The camera followed him to the right as he walked past the cemetery and the old grave. He went to one of the gravestones, knelt down in front of it, and the camera kept shaking-now it was his middle shot.
(3) Mid shot. Pip knelt in front of the grave, and the wind was still whistling. Pip took out a withered rose and threw it aside, patted the soil again, and then put the bunch of holly branches next to the tombstone with words written on it. The crack of branches.
(B) Storyboard writing format
Also known as director's script or director's script, it is the concentrated embodiment of director's desk work, and it is a script that divides the literary content of TV series into a series of shots that can be shot.
After analyzing and studying the literary script, the director turned the image of the combination of sound and picture into a storyboard in the future TV series by means of lens splitting. The content includes lens number, scene, shooting method, picture content, lines, music, sound effects, lens length and other items. Storyboard is the director's overall design and conception of TV series, and it is the main basis for the film crew to unify their creative ideas and work, which is conducive to ensuring the planning of shooting work.
We rewrote [Example 2] into a storyboard, from which we can realize the differences between the two scripts, and we can also see that the writers and directors have different perspectives.
(3) complete the template
The finished notebook is called a lens notebook. It is the work that the reporter finished after the whole film was filmed. The task is to record all the technical and artistic contents of the film that has been made and finalized, and specify the number of feet for each shot in detail. Its format is basically the same as the storyboard, but it gives a simple hint to the scene.