Please help me with this erroe

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Hey!
I started my first story and there is an error.
It says ,
Unexpected
SCREENCHANGE and then my background
What do I have to do with it?
Thank you for your help.

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Can you send the script?

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Oh, let's go to the cafe.
I've heard it's pretty good!

    SKY (listen_nod_happy_loop)

Okay!

    HANNAH (talk_excited_happy)

Then move your butt, sis!

    SKY (laugh_chuckle)

#SKY exits right

#HANNAH exits right

INT. DUTCH CAFE OL - DAY

@SKY enters from right to screen left and SKY faces right

@HANNAH enters from right to screen right and HANNAH faces left

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It needs to be
HANNAH
Oh, let’s go to the cafe.
I’ve heard it’s pretty good!

SKY (listen_nod_happy_loop)

Okay!

HANNAH (talk_excited_happy)

Then move your butt, sis!

@SKY is laugh_chuckle

@SKY exits right

@HANNAH exits right

INT. DUTCH CAFE OL - DAY

@SKY enters from right to screen left AND SKY faces right

@HANNAH enters from right to screen right AND HANNAH faces left

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Yes I used @ first but then it said error because I couldn’t use that so then I changed to #

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Weird. It should be @

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it said
unexpected sequence
you cannot use a director command (starting with @) here

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Can you screenshot it?

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On line 37 you put SKY (laugh_chuckle) but no dialogue underneath.

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If you didn’t want dialogue you have to put @SKY is laugh_chuckle

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You have to have the @ sign up against the “wall”
it doesn’t work if you do that
@ -this is the correct way to do it.
You shouldn’t have spaces between the @ sign and the “wall”

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That doesn’t affect the script. The problem was she put unfinished dialogue :slight_smile:

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hmm… that’s really weird
I know THAT’S the problem too, but why would the system point to another part in the script?

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Yeah.

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Do you mean why it pointed to that line.
In normal coding such as python if the mistake is on line 40 sometimes it says its on line 39. I don’t know the exact reason though. :woman_shrugging:t6:

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Yeah, that makes more sense

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Now it’s working.
I can see the preview and it doesn’t say any errors
I don’t know what did I do but thank you very much!

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Yay!

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