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VideoProduction: ExampleofDocumentaryScript
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Video Production
Screenplay Format - Example of Documentary Script
(Example drawing from Diners: America’s Roadside Attractions, Dec 20, 2001 by Fred Lacey)
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| Video | Audio |
| FADE UP EXT DINER
(Maggie’s diner) |
MUSIC UP Buddy Holly ("Peggy Sue") |
| INT DINER CU PIES under glass | MUSIC PLAYS along with NAT SOUND |
| Counter - tilt up to MS
Waitress delivering milkshake. CU CUSTOMER #1 in booth eating dinner - looks up |
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| MS DOLLY DOWN AISLE (camera passes customers in both booths) | MUSIC & NAT SOUND UNDER NARRATOR
V.O.: Maggie’s diner, just off the New York turnpike has been serving up burgers and shakes since 1930. |
| TRACKING SHOT MS WAITRESS with tray | Maggie’s Diner hasn’t changed much in the 70 years it’s been Open.
Customers can still get friendly service, |
| CAMERA FOLLOWS TRAY as she sets it down in front of a customer. | good food, and an atmosphere that takes us back to a time of innocence and youth. |
| MS WAITRESS scooping ice cream. CU MILKSHAKE MACHINE | CHUCK HAINES VO: I remember when I was eight years old, having my first milkshake. |
| CU CHUCK HAINES | I was sitting right over at that counter. I took one taste and I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven. |
| FADE TO BLACK |
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| FADE UP MS SMILING WOMAN in passenger seat (b&w 1940s Ford car commercial) | MUSIC UP (1940s "Two Lovebirds") |
| MS MAN DRIVING (from same Commercial) | NARRATOR V.O.: Early in the 20th century, America began a love affair that still burns today. |
| TRACKING SHOT CAR with couple | America fell in love with the automobile. |