Continuity Script Samples
Combined Continuity and Spotting List
Simple CCSL Transcription
Comprehensive CCSL Transcription
Combined Continuity and Spotting List with Dialogue Annotation
Combined Dialogue and Spotting List Sample
Dialogue List
Simple
Dialogue List
Comprehensive
Dialogue List
Spotting List
Dialogue Continuity List
As Broadcast Script
Simple As Broadcast Script Sample
Comprehensive As Broadcast Script
Difference between a CCSL and a CDSL
CCSL
CDSL
While both are spotting lists — as the common alphabets ‘SL’ indicate, the difference is primarily between the shot descriptions. While in a CCSL the continuity is maintained for the visual descriptions, a CDSL is focused on the dialogue and does not describe the video content.
Difference Between a CCSL, As Broadcast Script and Dialogue List
CCSL
As Broadcast Script
Dialogue List
Each of these lists are created once the media content is completely finished and ready to be delivered to the broadcaster or the distributor. The intent of all three is the same — to put on paper exactly the video and audio content of the final version of the show or movie. They differ in terms of their comprehensiveness.
CCSL
The CCSL is the most comprehensive of the three lists. In addition to the audible part of the show, such a dialog, sound effects, music cues, music description, lyrics, it also describes in detail the visual aspect of the show. Each shot is described from the beginning of a cut to the next cut. So a CCSL will have as many shot descriptions as there are shots.
As Broadcast Script
An As Broadcast Script is written in the same style as a screenplay. Although it describes the visuals but not from one cut to the next but rather it describes a scene from one natural beginning to its natural end. It also does not describe technical aspects such as camera movement, camera angles shot size etc. It’s job is to describe the action on the screen.
Dialogue List
A Dialogue List is the simplest of the three. Although, we’ve been asked to create Dialogue List with annotation and that does make it more complex and involves a lot more work. But at the very basic a Dialogue List will be in three columns with time code in at the very start of the dialogue, speaker ID and then the last column will list down the exact dialogue as its spoken.
What's a
Continuity Script?
A Continuity Script is a list of all the visual shots in a movie or video presentation described in the order of which they appear in the final presentation. Each shot is described from its first frame, which is the IN time code, to the last frame, which is the OUT time code.
There are as number of descriptions as there are shots. The Continuity script also will list all the graphics, lower-thirds and anything that is visual in a scene. It calculates the total duration of a shot from the IN time code to the OUT time code.