Title: YOUR TITLE Credit: written by Author: Your Name Contact: name@example.com FADE IN: INT. FIRST LOCATION - DAY Action says what the audience sees and hears, in the present tense. Keep each block to a few lines. Introduce a character in capitals the first time they appear: MAYA (30s), still in her coat. MAYA Dialogue sits in a narrow column under the speaker's name. SAM (quietly) A parenthetical gives a short direction for the line under it. MAYA In Word, press Enter after a name and the next line is dialogue. CUT TO: EXT. SECOND LOCATION - NIGHT Every scene starts with a heading: INT. or EXT., the place, and the time of day. Write your own story over these pages. >FADE OUT.