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yldii
09-12-2004, 07:15 AM
Whats the difference?
Is there a time when one should be used over the other?
dchapma123
09-12-2004, 07:36 AM
Use off screen.

Off camera is irrelevant, since your audience won't be looking through the camera.
Sledgeh101
09-12-2004, 07:07 PM
Use (O.S.) to mean someone off the screen (also, therefore, off camera)
maestrowork
09-12-2004, 10:13 PM
Why is there an O.C. anyway?
dchapma123
09-12-2004, 11:52 PM
As an Orange County resident, I ask myself that very question every day.
dpaterso
09-15-2004, 06:03 AM
Someone asked this in Done Deal a couple weeks back, the consensus was that OS is a film term and OC is a TV term, referring to the same thing.

I think I've seen OC used in Tarantino scripts but hey, who's going to tell him he's wrong?

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maestrowork
09-15-2004, 06:40 AM
TV uses O.S. too. I think there's a slight difference (again, it's "I think").

O.S. is generally used. When a character is speaking off somewhere (on a phone, in the bathroom yelling out, etc.)

O.C. seems to me a little more camera specific. That is, if the camera is on a close up of a character, and he's having a conversation with another character (who is present in the same scene but not in the close up), then the other character would be O.C.

That's what I think...