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- .he _AVScripter_ demo script
- .tl1 _The Wonderful World of AVScripter_
- .TL2 By Tom Schroeppel
- .tl3 An AVScripter Production
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-
- .v FADE IN ON
-
- .v# TOM'S OFFICE - COMPUTER AREA
- .V WIDE SHOT - TOM SCHROEPPEL standing by his computer.
- .v
- .v (Title)
- .v TOM SCHROEPPEL
- .a TOM:
- .A Welcome to AVScripter. The first thing you should notice about the
- full-width source file is that, for clarity's sake, I skipped two
- lines after the third title line. These extra blank lines are ignored
- when the script is printed out.
-
- .V TOM picks up computer printout and waves it in the air.
- .A This is because AVScripter automatically discards blank lines at
- the top of the page. So if a scene ends at the bottom of one page,
- the next page will automatically start with the next non-blank line.
-
- .A FADE IN SFX of printer UNDER.
- .v TOM turns and walks off camera.
-
- .v# TOM'S OFFICE - PRINTER AREA
- .v CLOSEUP - Printer with two-column script being printed.
- .a SFX printer UP.
-
- .v As printing stops, CAMERA PULLS BACK to reveal TOM entering frame
- and removing paper from printer. He turns to the camera.
- .a TOM:
- .A I designed AVScripter to work with any printer. This means no
- special installation, no dip-switch flipping, no hassles. You should
- be able to get all of AVScripter's features, even _underlining_, with
- any printer.
- .a
- .a You can also print selected pages and multiple copies--even
- multiple copies of selected pages!
-
- .v# TOM'S OFFICE - PRINTER AREA
- .v CLOSEUP - two-column script.
- .V CAMERA TILTS DOWN to bottom margin where there is _no_ "CONTINUED".
- .A TOM (VOICE-OVER):
- .a If a blank line or a new scene occurs near the bottom of the page,
- AVScripter starts a new page, rather than split an audio-video block
- across two pages.
-
- .v# TOM'S OFFICE - PRINTER AREA
- .v# MEDIUM SHOT - TOM
- .a TOM:
- .a Of course, you're not locked in to the standard page length and
- number of lines per page. You can change either default.
-
- .v CAMERA PULLS BACK and PANS with TOM as he walks over to a stack of
- papers by his computer.
- .a But here's the real reason I wrote AVScripter. These are the
- revisions on a script I recently wrote.
-
- .a _Without AVScripter_--even with one of those on-screen two-column
- programs--I would have spent a lot of time jumping back and forth
- between columns, re-aligning audio and video lines, renumbering scenes
- and pages, looking for page breaks, and adding "CONTINUED" to the
- bottoms and tops of pages.
-
- .a _With AVScripter_, I could concentrate on script content, and let
- the computer worry about everything else. Writing is a lot more fun
- now.
-
- .v He turns to computer and touches a key. An AVScripter source file
- with dot commands scrolls up the screen.
- .a Here's something else I like.
-
- .v# TOM'S OFFICE - COMPUTER AREA
- .v CLOSEUP - Computer screen.
- .v Full-width source file scrolls up and stops.
- .a TOM (VOICE-OVER):
- .A Look at that screen. There's a lot of information on it. A lot
- more information than you'd see if it were in two separate columns.
- Full-screen text is easier to write, easier to rewrite, and easier to
- manipulate. Block moves are simple when you don't have to worry about
- keeping your columns aligned or renumbering your scenes or adjusting
- your page breaks.
-
- .v# TOM'S OFFICE - COMPUTER AREA
- .v MEDIUM SHOT - TOM
- .a TOM:
- .A If you think AVScripter would be useful to you, please send me the
- $40 registration fee. When I receive it, I'll send you the latest
- version on disk, a handy command card, free updates for six months,
- and complete printed documentation explaining the following advanced
- features:
-
- .v# GRAPHICS - Titles echoing audio lines appear on screen as features
- are mentioned.
- .a Start the program direct from the opening menu, bypassing the
- monochrome test and shareware screens.
- .a
- .a Insert full-width text across both columns anywhere in your script.
- .a
- .a Print both columns double-spaced, or print the video column
- single-spaced and the audio column double-spaced.
- .a
- .a Change the width of your columns: narrow video/wide audio, vice
- versa, or any setting in between.
- .a
- .a Automatically include the current date in your headers.
- .a
- .a In place of -VIDEO-/-AUDIO-, write your own column headers, or
- choose no headers at all.
- .a
- .a Automatically send setup commands to your printer.
- .a
- .a Change page length, number of lines per page, starting scene
- number, or starting page number.
- .a
- .a Insert non-printing comment lines--notes to yourself--inside
- your script.
-
- .v FADE TO BLACK