Sluglines Question

[wendydarling11]

Jeez, I really am back to the basics, all of a sudden! I've never been really clear on this. Can someone please explain it, definitively, for me?:

2 locations, both interior, scenes going back & forth between them...continuous for awhile, then not.

For example...

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

blah,blah,blah

INT. MASTER BATHROOM - NIGHT
or
INT. MASTER BATHROOM - CONTINUOUS
or
MASTER BATHROOM - CONTINUOUS

blah,blah,blah

MASTER BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS
or, simply
MASTER BEDROOM

blah,blah,blah

MASTER BATHROOM

blah,blah,blah

then,
MASTER BEDROOM - MORNING
or
INT. MASTER BEDROOM - MORNING

blah,blah,blah


(somebody, stop me....)

[Writer1]

Not sure I understand.

Is it 2 different characters in 2 different rooms? or 1 character(perhaps pacing) back and forth from one room to another?

[wendydarling11]

Mostly one character, moving from one room into the other, then back again. But sometimes another character also. Sometimes there's dialogue, sometimes just action. I think I'm making it sound more complicated than it is.

[jimjimgrande]

try this

INT. MASTER BEDROOM NIGHT

Wendy sheds clothes, unhooks her bra as she disappears into

THE BATHROOM

Shower on. Steam billows.

Jim enters the bedroom, sees the trail of clothes.

JIM
Daddy's home!

WENDY
(in the bathroom)
Hurry up or I'm starting without you.

Jim drops trou, trips, bangs his nuts on the bedpost.

His howls of pain bring Wendy.

JIM
Ice...need ice.



I'll stop there. I think that as long as you clearly give a sense of where the characters are in relation to the space, you shouldn't worry about noting changes from room to room. Too many sluglines will just slow down a read, especially if you don't need them.