How to denote voices/thoughts in a character's head?
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For a character's inner thoughts you would need to use a voice over narration. You would put this next to the character's name in the dialogue block:
CHARACTER NAME (V.O.)
dialogue.
Or if you mean that your character has multiple personalities. I would create a name for each personality, almost a character in and of themselves. Then when you write the voice in the head's lines:
CHARACTER'S VOICE
dialogue.
You would obviously have to set up the voices in the head early in the script, unless this is a haunted house or ghost story, then just establish that your character is hearing these mysterious voices.
I don't know if there is any type of special format for this, but this is what I would do.
CHARACTER NAME (V.O.)
dialogue.
Or if you mean that your character has multiple personalities. I would create a name for each personality, almost a character in and of themselves. Then when you write the voice in the head's lines:
CHARACTER'S VOICE
dialogue.
You would obviously have to set up the voices in the head early in the script, unless this is a haunted house or ghost story, then just establish that your character is hearing these mysterious voices.
I don't know if there is any type of special format for this, but this is what I would do.
Thanks! I've used V.O. before but just not sure if I can use this same format for inner thoughts.
As for the hearing voices in his head, I tried to make this script not a ghost story; however, I also like to show that this character does experience hearing voices in his head whether this is real or just his imagination/hallucination. I was thinking of using POV for this hearing voices but I'm not positive if it would fit well.
As for the hearing voices in his head, I tried to make this script not a ghost story; however, I also like to show that this character does experience hearing voices in his head whether this is real or just his imagination/hallucination. I was thinking of using POV for this hearing voices but I'm not positive if it would fit well.
You might try using different people to voice over the two different "characters". Then have the actor assign a facial expression to each "character" and switch facial expressions to match the "character" who is speaking. You may even have them look left for one and right for the other.
Yes. When shooting the scene, I may have to do that but right now, I'm concentrating on how to format this in a script. I'm not sure how or what to do use for the character hearing voices in his head. I don't want to confuse by using VO for both character hearing voices and his own thoughts.