Voice over

[uncle_al]

Great, that helps heaps.
Man these forums are the best! I've learnt more in 6 days than I have in 2 years.

Hat's off to the big Cat's!!

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Cheers!

Al B.

[davidpayne]

Great, that helps heaps.
Man these forums are the best! I've learnt more in 6 days than I have in 2 years.

Hat's off to the big Cat's!!

[ScriptNurse]

If it's going to go on for a page or more, I think I would try to set it up as dual-column dialogue, particularly if BOTH need to be heard by the audience.

[davidpayne]

Thanks Don, also just to add what about say a church sermon that ran from the top of a scene with a couple talking through it? how would that format?

[ScriptNurse]

The proper format is:

INT. PEABODY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

A FLASHLIGHT snaps on. PEABODY, a worldly ten year old wiseacre, crammed under his bed amid an array of dust, dishes, and dirty clothes. He prints legibly in a small diary.

PEABODY (V.O.)

What happened today shouldn't have happened to a dog. But it did. "Day One." He came.

[davidpayne]

Hey people, thanks for the help I'm going to go with v/o at the start of dialogue and break it up with action. Cheers for the help, very thankfull 

[Shindig]

My main script was voice-overed and inner monologued to ribbons.  I mainly sided with just putting V/O.

[tzpilot]

Dave,

I think you are correct!  I usually put my voice overs throughout my action lines depending what I want to show.  I have also included my voice overs within and around my character dialogue in order to add some depth to my scenes, rather than just telling my audience . . .

I don't think there is any wrong way to do voice overs.

Good Luck,

Dan

[padnar]

I think just writing VO is
enough before the character's speak
if I am correct
padma

[davidpayne]

How do I format a voice over with action? Do I break up the voice over adding in action paragraphs? Please Help