ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Style guidelines for the first page of a text submitted to on-line publisher Lazy Bee Scripts."> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Scripts,Script,Plays,Play,Pantomimes,Pantomime,Panto,publish,publishing,publisher,publishers,published,style,text,texts"> <META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS 1.0 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l r (SS~~000 1))'> <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Visual Page 2.0 for Windows"> <TITLE>Lazy Bee Scripts Style guidelines for the first page</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="130"><IMG SRC="../Graphics/lazybee.gif" WIDTH="130" HEIGHT="102" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0"></TD> <TD> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><B><I><FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#990000">Lazy Bee Scripts</FONT></I></B><FONT SIZE="7">&nbsp;<BR> </FONT><B><FONT SIZE="5">The First Page of Your Script</FONT></B> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD> <TD WIDTH="130"><IMG SRC="../Graphics/rightbee130.gif" WIDTH="130" HEIGHT="102" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="130">&nbsp;</TD> <TD>&nbsp;</TD> <TD WIDTH="130">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="3"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%" align="center"><B>This page explains what we want you to put on the first page of your script.<br /> </B> (Other publishers may want other things.)</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <B><FONT SIZE="4">The Title</FONT></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <ul> <li>This seems obvious to me, but it doesn't seem to be obvious to all authors.&nbsp; The first line of your script should be the title.&nbsp; (You may think that you've told us the title in your query letters, but we may not pass the information on to our editors in an adequate form.&nbsp; We rely on the author to be explicit on the first page of the script.)</li> <li>We also rely on the author to be consistent about the title!</li> </ul> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <B><FONT SIZE="4">The By-line</FONT></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <ul> <li>Again, it seems obvious, but the second line of the script should be the word "by" followed by the name(s) of the author(s).&nbsp; (Again we rely on the author to be explicit, not least because the author may wish to use a pen-name.)</li></ul> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <B><FONT SIZE="4">Characters</FONT></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <UL> <LI> The by-line should be followed by a list of characters<li>This should have the heading "Characters".&nbsp; (Never "Cast".&nbsp; The cast describes the group of actors who play the characters.&nbsp; They are cast in roles.&nbsp; If Jim is cast as Hamlet, the cast includes Jim but the characters include Hamlet.)</li> <li> Don't use fancy formatting (particularly don't use tables or multiple columns), just a format of one character per line</li> <li>Character descriptions at this point should be kept short - a single line at most.&nbsp; (If longer character descriptions are desirable, then they should appear in the Production Notes section at the end of the script.)</li> </UL> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <B><FONT SIZE="4">Optional Extras</FONT></B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"> <UL> <LI> In some scripts, it may be appropriate to put a brief description of the setting (time and place) on the first page, but in other scripts this will be part of the scene-setting directions of the opening scene.</UL> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD colspan=2> <strong><FONT SIZE="4">And that's all (except for the things we will add)</font></strong></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" style="height: 19px"> <ul> <li> We will put in other things, such as a copyright notice.</li> </ul> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%">&nbsp;</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH="100%" style="text-align: center">Return to the <a href="Style.htm">House Style Overview</a></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>