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Date Stamping A Movie Scene… Creatively

November 10, 2018 by Deb

So you want to suggest what time of year it is in a movie scene? Sure, there are the standards: blossoming flowers = spring green leaves on trees = summer coloured leaves in piles = fall snow = winter Beyond location weather, you can – of course – use clothing to signify weather and time […]

Filed Under: INK, Life, Script Road Map Tagged With: scriptwriting

Script as a Road Map: Naming Script Locations

June 4, 2010 by Deb 2 Comments

After the organic writing process of creating the script, it’s time to reformat the script in preparation for the shoot. Make the script what it is: a road map for making a film production. What if the action moves from one room to another within a scene? If the plan is for the set of […]

Filed Under: Management, Script Road Map Tagged With: script format

Script as a Road Map: Naming Characters

April 16, 2010 by Deb Leave a Comment

Scripting a story can be an organic process, and methods of screenwriting will vary depending on the writer. You’ll see the variances between completed scripts of different scribes. A shooting script, however, is not a completed work, like a novel is. A shooting script is a road map – a set of instructions to be really […]

Filed Under: Management, Script Road Map Tagged With: script format

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