Page Numbers

THE PLAYWRITING SEMINARS > FORMAT > FORMAT EXAMPLE > PAGE NUMBERS

Page numbers are essential for estimating the running time of a script as well as checking the relative balance in the length of acts.

								I-1

				ACT I

				SCENE 1

• Numbering begins with the first page of dialogue.

• Numbers are always in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

• Each act is numbered consecutively through the end of an Act:
  I-1 I-2 I-3

• The numbering for Act II begins again from scratch: II-1 II-2 II-3

• Plays structured in short formal scenes without Act designations are numbered consecutively with numerals only. If Act designations are also used -- most playwrights do it this way -- then follow the numbering system for plays in Acts.

• Preliminary pages, if numbered at all, are done with lower case Roman numerals: i ii iii iv