Board Thread:Site Problems and Appearance/@comment-25094659-20141202185202/@comment-8161155-20141203023558

MinecraftPercabeth wrote: Mr B Natural wrote: Here is the format I use

The left column is for the character name only. It never describes their position or how they are speaking (i.e. narrating).

When a character is performing an action, that action is in italics and parentheses in their own row. I don't like lines like

! Dipper


 * Hi (Mabel walks up)

Because Dipper did not make Mabel walk up. That row is for his dialog and actions, no one else's.

If characters perform an action, their name should be in the left column.

! Mabel


 * (walks up)

Not

!


 * Mabel walks up.

When putting things in parentheses, don't include a pronoun, not (She nods) but (nods).

If the thing in parentheses describes how they are speaking, include a colon (Whispering:).

In the left column, put the character name as we the audience knows them. I see lots of "Grunkle Stan" in the transcripts, but Stan is not our uncle, so he should just be "Stan".

Minecraft, I know you don't like ALL CAPS, so I will use them conservatively in the future. However, sometimes they are helpful to see how the line sounds and a lot of characters, such as Mabel speak often in all caps. At first I forgot my username and though you were talking to my game xD

I'm a little confused with your actions idea. When would we give them their own box for actions and when would we keep it in another character's speech box

Here's an idea: When someone does a significant action, like I described before, instead of creating a box for them and putting in their actions the way Natural described (which I totally agree with) we make an empty box, like scene cuts, and say who does what. Just an idea that popped into my head

I agree with the names as well. I think, however, we should use full names: Stanford rather than Stan. The thought occured to me when I realized if a character like Stanley was introduced, we might have to change all the transcripts. Why not instate a rule like this now? In case anything like that ever happens. Just some proper edicite otherwise.

The caps I do agree with, I just think people overuse them. Admitedly, I do underuse them. I agreed with everything you said there except for typing the full names. That would make transcript writing much harder than it needs to be and it would be largely unnecessary. We have a rule for how we name articles, which is, of the names they are commonly known by, which one is more formal. So, not Grunkle Stan, but also not Stanford Pines. Why not refer to characters in transcripts by their article names?