Overview
The Dialogue List is a delivery document that identifies and organizes all spoken dialogue and on-screen text appearing in the finished film. This is used for captions, subtitles, accessibility workflows, sound post-production reference, and final delivery documentation.
Accurate dialogue documentation is important because downstream workflows such as captioning, subtitling, localization, accessibility compliance, and archival delivery depend on having a reliable written record of the film’s spoken content. Maintaining a clean and organized dialogue list also helps productions avoid inconsistencies or omissions during final delivery.
Instructions
When a film is sent to a foreign language film festival, the festival will add subtitles in the local language based on this Dialogue List. The form should include all spoken dialogue and on-screen text that is in the final film, including the timecode of when each occurs.
SAMPLE
Here’s a sample of what the completed form should look like:
