http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/forums/7 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:49:55 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/forums/7 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/938/t/Same-Scene-Time-Lapse.html
A scene has just ended in 1939 outside an old house at night. I want to transition that scene seamlessly into the next, which is the same house, the same exact setting, but it's now 2007 and daytime.

In effect, the camera never leaves the house---the night simply transitions into the light of day and it's 70 years later.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/938 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:50:12 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/940/t/SLUGLINES-PAST-amp-PRESENT.html
EXT. MAGNOLIA TREE-1939 - NIGHT

then

EXT. BUSY LA STREET-THE PRESENT - DAY ]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/940 Thu, 31 May 2007 13:18:12 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/941/t/Could-I-sue-.html feeds@yuku.com (deliveranceman) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/941 Thu, 31 May 2007 10:34:39 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/939/t/The-Screenwriter-As-Protagonist.html
A fellow writer has told me that using a sceenwriter as the central character is now taboo due to overuse, and many readers will ditch the script right away for that reason alone. He suggested I make him a novelist instead, but I feel it... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/939 Wed, 30 May 2007 09:16:03 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/943/t/PAUSE-BEFORE-SPEAKING.html
I was taken to task by a reviewer for using an ellipsis (...) preceding some dialogue for this purpose; the reviewer said ellipses can come in the middle or at the end of dialogue, but not before it. I suggested substituting (pause) or (beat) in its place and was told to simply "Stop directing the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/943 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:39:37 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/944/t/CAPS-OR-NO-CAPS.html
What is the prevailing opinion on this, if any? I've seen a number of actual movie scripts loaded with such upper case actions and elements.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/944 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:13:41 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/946/t/Short-Film-Script-Contest-Winning-Script-Gets-Produced.html feeds@yuku.com (Belfagor the Dog) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/946 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:31:32 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/945/t/Credit-to-girlfriend-.html
Now that its finished, she feels a sense of ownership and is dissappointed that I'm getting all the credit/attention for the script.

I'm not sure how to deal... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (tmzrider) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/945 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:30:41 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/942/t/Does-this-title-pop-out-at-you-.html "Love Manufactured" ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ricther880) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/942 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:29:23 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/947/t/Do-studios-look-for-the-Three-Act-Structure-.html feeds@yuku.com (ricther880) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/947 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:58:34 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/948/t/PAGE-BREAKS.html
INT. BUTLER HOUSE - CONTINUOUS

Across the living room, up the stairs, down the BALCONY, through the closed, bullet-ridden bedroom door into the

BEDROOM

Goldring on the bed in the darkness.
____________________________________

In this script, I have to break... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/948 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:32:55 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/949/t/DARKNESS.html
Similarly, when you want to open the scene immediately following in the same darkness and then have some sounds begin before the visual opens up, how do you indicate that?

It's hard to explain---this is what I mean:

EXT. BUTLER HOUSE - NIGHT

A modest old southern colonial house, no lights on, dark, foreboding.

Sounds... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/949 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:37:28 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/950/t/Awkward-good-.html
I always hated those moments and tried to avoid making them awkard, which was probably a bad idea. But there are no awkward moments in, say, Crash that I can remember, or Pulp Fiction. They... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (dandenmark) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/950 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:09:36 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/951/t/Montage-With-Voice-Over.html
I want to jazz up the old woman's anecdote by portraying three short silent scenes from the girl's life, as the old woman tells the story.

I decided to make it a MONTAGE within the Master Scene in which each of the three action descriptions of the girl's life are intermingled with related voice-over dialogue... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/951 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:58:28 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/952/t/Great-opportunity-for-screenwriters-.html
WILDsound Monthly Reading Series offers screenwriters at all levels the fantastic opportunity of hearing their scripts read out loud using Top Professional Actors in front of a sold out crowd of their peers (over 100 people). Then after the script is read, they get to hear feedback from a selected Industry Professional who will moderate the event... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (artietheguy) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/952 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:50:21 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/954/t/The-quot-in-case-you-re-an-idiot-quot-sequence.html
By that I mean the montage that comes at the end of a lot of mystery movies these days where they walk you through every step of the movie again, showing you the clues they think you were too dumb to notice, or have forgotten in the last 90 minutes. Is that put in by the author, director, or a post-production focus group?

Thanks! ]]> feeds@yuku.com (jamesmcmurray) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/954 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:44:37 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/955/t/RADIO-DIALOGUE-.html
Say, for example: I have a scene where a character is sitting in a car, completely bewildered, having just seen his family slaughtered by rogue circus clowns, and he hears the radio "say" something about clowns. The he tunes to another station. The radio then "says"... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (joelberry) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/955 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:50:09 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/956/t/Writing-Action-Scenes.html
I plead guilty but my intention was simply to describe the sequence of events that the battle follows, leaving it up to the director to micro-manage the blow-by-blows. I include such an Action sequence below. Where did I go wrong? What's the "right" way to write this?

"The Lordsmen's attack overruns the first redoubt... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/956 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:35:56 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/957/t/Cinestory-competition-anyone-else-waiting-for-results-.html
Nothing there saying, "Sorry, we at least acknowledge we missed our own deadline." No one answers the phone (there... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (CharlesJones2) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/957 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:34:46 GMT http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/958/t/Speakerphone-Conversations.html
He quickly pushes the speaker button.

GOLDRING
Yes, hello, Dr. Richardson.

RICHARDSON
(on the speaker)
I'd like to see you as soon as possible, Mr. Goldring. May I visit you tomorrow?

GOLDRING
Here? You want to come... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (harvp46) http://screenplaycommessageboard.yuku.com/topic/958 Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:34:04 GMT