Location where day/night is NA

[scripter1]

The location is in a room with no windows. It doesn't matter to the scene whether it is day or night.
Can you just drop the time signifier in the slug line?

INT. ROOM

Lit by a single candle.


It just looks so weird without the DAY/NIGHT

[Speezer]

Since it doesn't matter, I say just pick one. A lot of scripts have scenes with rooms with no windows, but they still specify DAY/NIGHT.

If you don't include DAY/NIGHT, you might have a reader pause and wonder which it is. You don't want that.

My vote is for NIGHT :D

[ComicBent]

Leave it out.

Also, look around in 'Basics' at some similar threads on this question.

[GBarlow]

If the location prior to the room had a DAY/NIGHT slug and the scene following has one, then you will need to put one in - at least for the sake of being consistant.

[TwoBrad Bradley]

What if it's DAY when he goes into the room and NIGHT when he comes out?

I vote no TOD. TOD is a clue for the lighting guy. I would put WINDOWLESS ROOM in the scene heading.

[pantalone]

What's going on? Time Of Day might be a lighting issue. It might be a story element. If time is so important that the audience needs to know that it is 3:50 PM, not 4:25 AM, then I say put that in the slug. Let the director decide if it is a SUPER. If you want to keep the time unknown, let's say it is an important story element that the audience not know what time it is, just as the characters do not know, the I'd write a "?" as the time. Otherwise, I'd probably use a consistent time, say follow a day with a day or a night with a night.

When the TOD doesn't matter, then I wouldn't over think it.

[JakeSchuster aka Ostroff]

Yeah, put it in. It's vital to the narrative continuity, imhp.