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🎬 Outdoor scene ☎️ Extension code 🛫 Exeter Airport
ext

ext

65 9.0
A script heading that shows a scene takes place outside
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : exterior
  • EXT. HENRY'S HOUSE - EVENING: We see a set of keys come flying out the window.
  • INT/ext
  • CUT TO: ext
  • DISSOLVE TO: ext

Examples

  • EXT. STREET SIDE OF DOOR - DAY CARMELLA, in doorway, watches HENRY go down the block toward school.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • EXT. RIVER BOAT - TOP DECK: A pirate has taken over the boat's wheel.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • EXT. TANK The tank speeds toward the rows of charging Nazi troops.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • HELPLESS. EXT. PLAINS: Gutterbuhg and Indiana continue to FIGHT.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Gutterbuhg smiles. EXT. TANK Indy cannot find a passageway into the tank.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Puzzled by the sight of their own tank coming toward them. EXT. TANK The Gorilla's tank fires a direct shot at the other Nazi tank.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • EXT. ODA MAE'S APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT Willie and Carl jump out of the car.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • EXT. PARK - AFTERNOON: Children are playing on the swings while their parents relax on benches.

  • EXT. BEACH - SUNSET: The waves crash against the shore as the sun sets in the distance.

  • EXT. FARM - MORNING: The cows graze peacefully in the meadow as the sun rises.

Synonyms

outside
vsext
23 1.0

Leading from a room to the outdoors

is a script abbreviation used to show a scene is set outdoors
exterior
vsext
4 3.4

For use on the outside of a building

is a script abbreviation used to show a scene is set outdoors

Surface Forms

ext singular
exts plural

Etymology

Ext comes from exterior, which means 'outside'. In scripts ext marks scenes that happen outdoors, so the origin explains why it tells you the action is outside.