Because this is a screenplay (meant to be used as a working document to create a film, correct?) and not a novel or even a play, I wouldn't worry about "spoiling" the reader by revealing the ending with the sluglines. I'd create distinct sluglines for each alternate universe and use them strictly and consistently. I do not know if there is a standard way, but I would write it in whatever way makes it crystal clear when the events are taking place. Is there an standard way to write slugs to differentiate scenes set in the same location that are in the future, past, present, and imagined? So i guess the general question comes down to : So the reader can follow it a little easier, but i'm not sure if this is correct.Īlso i'm unsure for imagined scenes (things that have never actually happened - he's just projecting to the possibilities) if I should label them numerically : So, I had a lot of sluglines that begin : The rest of the scenes are either future or imagined - same thing really, as he's imagining the future, but I believe a slugline is typically written as "later" in this case. The story starts and ends in the present, and we come back to it a few times to keep it grounded and at times for comedic effect. Some of these are past, in that he's implied it's happened before and could happen again. So the screenplay is a large collection of very short scenes, that are happening at different times. I'm writing a short film that has the vast majority scenes set in a pub, with the main male character about to approach a woman, and he imagines/projects some of the possibilities of this - it goes nowhere, leads to sex, leads to long term relationship, leads to his murder (Basic Instinct style), leads to his imprisonment through weird chain of events, gets slapped for attempting a threesome, she's the mother of his children, etc etc.īasically someone with a vast imagination but using this to show the beauty of standing before a nexus in life that can branch off in limitless directions - which is the theme.
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