Super Impose or Sub Title ?? Plz help.

[teige]

Hey everyone.
I want it to say 1 Month Later but i aint sure if its Superimpose or Sub Title ????
Which one is it and can someone give me an example thx.

[GirlinGray]

EXT. TOWN SQUARE - DAY

SUPER: One Month Later

Billy and Monica stroll, hand in hand. . . .

[DOMINIC RIGGIO]

even before I clicked on I knew gig was the first person to post.

is teige your pet project? teige my friend LINKS - go LOSE yourself for a while - and girly, told you i'd be following you around.

nice post, answered his question quick like.

D.R.

[DOMINIC RIGGIO]

try TITLE CARD: but use caution teige. . .

D.R.

[teige]

Wat u saying Domonic.
You saying we have got something going or u saying im a dumbass or wat is it.

[DOMINIC RIGGIO]

don't use superimpose becasue a girl said it - you get
cooodiiiiss from them. . .

use either TITLE CARD OR SUPER I use title card.

that's what I'm sayin' - if you translate that as you being less than weighed down in the smarts department then that is a personally thing with you and your families genes.

D.R.

[Crowfeeder]

Sorry, just to interject here...

Is there a huge different between SUPER and TITLE CARD? I previously used CAP: as in Caption:

Is there now another facet to this hellish existance I have immersed myself in!! No... Why couldn't I get involved in something less complicated like industrial espionage or bee keeping?

So are SUPER, TITLE CARD & CAP are the same thing?

See ya, Crowfeeder.

[DOMINIC RIGGIO]

can't remember the last time i saw CAP. super is around and used so is title.

[GirlinGray]

Well you use "CAP" for comics, but I have never seen it in a film script.

[Crowfeeder]

Hi GIG

...I did mispend my youth drawing comics, proof that old habits die hard...

Crowfeeder

[Peach ice cream]

SUPER: "One Month Later", means that that title is SUPERimposed over a shot. SUPER stands for Superimposed.

They way I've seen it is this:
TITLE CARD: Over black the words "One Month Later", fade in and out.
or
TITLE CARD: "One Month Later"
Peach

[lilybet]

Sally rides away on her bike.

ONE MONTH LATER

EXT. STREET - DAY

(Letting the director decide how to suggest the passage of time.)

[Peach ice cream]

There's nothing wrong with what you wrote lilybet, but if it is necessary for the TONE of the script you should describe how the title is seen. If you have a big dramatic event and then just put "One Month Later" it doesn't have the same feeling as describing that transistion in my opinion. It comes down to the schools of thought on how much description is too much and ALL the great scripts I've read have quite a dose of visual style in them. You can SEE the film as you're reading it.

What you've written would be included in the SLUG line anyway, not by itself on a line.

EXT. STREET - DAY - ONE MONTH LATER

but as I said this slug simply is a jump in time transition for the reader, there is no assumed FADE TO BLACK and FADE UP again, which is also something I forgot to mention, those transitions should be in there.

Peach

[ksk2]

Tons of people have advocated "letting the director decide". Also, it's possible to construct a scene to show the passage of time rather than tell (or type) it.

SUPERS and VO's shouldn't be necessary.

As for Crowfeeder: your youth drawing comics was only mispent if you never tried to get the work published (wink!). One good gig (as opposed to "Gig") can often lead to the strangest of contacts, and maybe even some nice printed words by Stephen King...

[Peach ice cream]

ksk, what are you saying there? That the use of Voice Over is never necessary, or does VO stand for something I'm not familair with?

Peach

[DOMINIC RIGGIO]

thank you peach, the difference is in tone and texture, couldn't agree more. but lets not confuse the questionaire to much water in the boat will capsize it.

D.R.

[ksk2]

Peach: I was referring to Voice Overs. But as I've said before, voice overs rely on the Director of Photography, the actor in question and the guy in the edit-bay. Also can be screwed up by a bad choice in incedental music. The more parts to a machine, the greater the likelihood of a breakdown.

In a certain classic film that starts with the narrator floating butt-up, dead in a swimming-pool, fine. Because of the plot and genre of the flick. But there is no way to know if voice over helps/harms a script until we know mor about the genre, etc. IMO (and only in my own opinion) I think the VO in Bladerunner was vapid. All passage of time, all things that the VO hammered out, were aptly covered by the quality of the script, directing and acting. Didn't hurt that the script came from an extraordinarily well-written novel, either.

Not buggin' on anyone, just think that if people could make wildy successful silent movies, they can (in the proper circumstances) take one tiny day for a re-write that eliminates the need for "tricks".

[bennydeltone]

You SMOKE a kind batch of the SENSES lately... and when did you get the spellchecker? Still gots a little problem with know and now and 's...

Okay - put the tire iron down -

Admiring your growth from afar... Billy Madison on the message board.

Peace - Benny

[DOMINIC RIGGIO]

hail me.

D.R.

[ksk2]

Hopefully you mean your own Legend, not that piece of trifle-crap with Cruise-Boy...

Your Legend I can deal with. Tom can go suck it up from the Dianetics people.