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Screenwriting
Numbers in dialog?
I'm doing a semi-military kind of thing right now, and just wonder - when characters say 08:00 hours, do I type "Oh Eight Hundred" or "08:00" or "08 hundred" or...?
What's the accepted norm?
cd
The difference between immorality and immortality is "T". I like Earl Grey.
What's the accepted norm?
cd
The difference between immorality and immortality is "T". I like Earl Grey.
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[nq:1]I'm doing a semi-military kind of thing right now, and just wonder - when characters say 08:00 hours, do I type "Oh Eight Hundred" or "08:00" or "08 hundred" or...? What's the accepted norm? cd The difference between immorality and immortality is "T".
- [nq:1]I'm doing a semi-military kind of thing right now, and just wonder - when characters say 08:00 hours, do I type "Oh Eight Hundred" or "08:00" or "08 hundred" or...?
- What's the accepted norm?
- cd The difference between immorality and immortality is "T".
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[nq:1]I'm doing a semi-military kind of thing right now, and just wonder - when characters say 08:00 hours, do I type "Oh Eight Hundred" or "08:00" or "08 hundred" or...? What's the accepted norm? cd The difference between immorality and immortality is "T". I like Earl Grey.[/nq]
"Oh Eight Hundred"
(According to "The Screenwriter's Bible" by David Trottier.)
"Oh Eight Hundred"
(According to "The Screenwriter's Bible" by David Trottier.)
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"Paulo Joe Jingy"
[nq:2]I'm doing a semi-military kind of thing right now, and ... or "08:00" or "08 hundred" or...? What's the accepted norm?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Oh Eight Hundred" (According to "The Screenwriter's Bible" by David Trottier.)[/nq]
I've read the same thing, but not in Trottier. Unfortunately it's a convention that is widely ignored.
I often import downloaded scripts into my
[nq:2]I'm doing a semi-military kind of thing right now, and ... or "08:00" or "08 hundred" or...? What's the accepted norm?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Oh Eight Hundred" (According to "The Screenwriter's Bible" by David Trottier.)[/nq]
I've read the same thing, but not in Trottier. Unfortunately it's a convention that is widely ignored.
I often import downloaded scripts into my
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[nq:1]"Paulo Joe Jingy"[/nq]
[nq:2]"Oh Eight Hundred" (According to "The Screenwriter's Bible" by David Trottier.)[/nq]
[nq:1]I've read the same thing, but not in Trottier. Unfortunately it's a convention that is widely ignored. I often import ... upwith sentences like "We assemble at : , and attack at : ." So, yeah, write out numbers.[/nq]
Thanks.
Hmmm... so I guess the guy who wr
[nq:2]"Oh Eight Hundred" (According to "The Screenwriter's Bible" by David Trottier.)[/nq]
[nq:1]I've read the same thing, but not in Trottier. Unfortunately it's a convention that is widely ignored. I often import ... upwith sentences like "We assemble at : , and attack at : ." So, yeah, write out numbers.[/nq]
Thanks.
Hmmm... so I guess the guy who wr
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[nq:1]Hmmm... so I guess the guy who wrote "Se7en" didn't use Sophocles?[/nq]
Not to mention "Thir13en Ghosts" although I'm guessing that spelling came along later in the process.
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
Not to mention "Thir13en Ghosts" although I'm guessing that spelling came along later in the process.
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
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"Carl Dershem"
[nq:2]So, yeah, write out numbers.[/nq]
[nq:1]Hmmm... so I guess the guy who wrote "Se7en" didn't use Sophocles?[/nq]
THE TAKING OF PELHAM A.B.C. got a name change after the writer bought Movie Magic.
And note the use of written numerics:
SUSPECT ZERO
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
TWO FOR THE ROAD
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
THE FOUR FEATHERS
F
[nq:2]So, yeah, write out numbers.[/nq]
[nq:1]Hmmm... so I guess the guy who wrote "Se7en" didn't use Sophocles?[/nq]
THE TAKING OF PELHAM A.B.C. got a name change after the writer bought Movie Magic.
And note the use of written numerics:
SUSPECT ZERO
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
TWO FOR THE ROAD
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
THE FOUR FEATHERS
F
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[nq:1]And note the use of written numerics: SUSPECT ZERO ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST TWO FOR THE ROAD THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR THE FOUR FEATHERS FIVE EASY PIECES THE SIXTH SENSE THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS THE NINTH GATE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS[/nq]
10,000 B.C.
12 Rounds
13 Going on 301408
16 Blocks
17 Again
2 Days in Paris
2 Fast 2 Furious
10,000 B.C.
12 Rounds
13 Going on 301408
16 Blocks
17 Again
2 Days in Paris
2 Fast 2 Furious
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