: Re: What does "OFF" mean in a script? Could anybody, please, enlighten me as to what "off" means in the following excerpts taken from the script for the TV show "Breaking Bad"? (I've also come

In the context you've provided, OFF Marie, left stewing now means "this is the last thing the camera sees before it moves off her to the next shot."

These are framing directions to the camera person. Look at the parentheticals:

PAMELA And itâ€™s not an apartment, itâ€™s a house that you live in? (off Skylerâ€™s nod) Do you own outright, or is there a mortgage, or do you...

That means that while Pamela is speaking, the camera either cuts to Skyler so the audience can see her nodding or the camera has been focusing on Skyler while Pamela is speaking out of the frame and then cuts (back) to Pamela with Skyler's nod.

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