: Re: Why are some words in screenplays set in all caps? I believe I understand this and I'm looking for confirmation. Examples: It has become a tugging match with the Weird Man shouting, "I'll

When ALL CAPS is used mid-sentence like that it's usually because it's the first appearance of that thing on screen. If you think about it, the focus of almost any scene will be the characters in it, so a BLOODY BODY is unlikely to get much screen time compared to say, DETECTIVE KATE BECKETT.

In some cases it may suggest the focus for the scene - such as "unnoticed by her captors, Beckett slips a KITCHEN KNIFE in her boot" - but ultimately the director will point the camera where he wants to point the camera and if it's a choice between a bloody body and Kata Stanic he's going to point it at the star every time.

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