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04-13-2012, 07:51 PM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
"Calculate less" -- Old North Korean Proverb
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04-15-2012, 05:31 AM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
I'd also change SMASH CUT: to something more like...
SMACK MY BITCH UP TO: |
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04-15-2012, 10:41 PM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
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to LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED: I wonder if he will care?
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04-17-2012, 05:24 AM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
After Seeemingly Endless Commercials And That Funny One About Turning Off Your Cell Phone We Stumble Into:
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04-17-2012, 10:24 AM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
It's a non-essential issue and really a writers perogative to use it in the beginning and "FADE OUT" at the end. But's it's not mandatory or essential to your script.
It's a transitional term. use it as such... |
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04-17-2012, 02:47 PM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
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that was great... I was thinking-- SHHH!! Taisez-vous. |
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04-17-2012, 03:06 PM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
I still tend to use it. But yeah -- looks like it's being phased out along with FADE OUT...
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04-18-2012, 09:43 AM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
Just got notes back on my script from the production company. They actually did have a few format-related notes. They didn't, however, mention the odd way in which I started and ended the script. Also, they attached to the script regardless of the few formatting issues they did have. That's good enough proof for me that format just doesn't matter a whole lot.
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04-21-2012, 08:01 AM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
i never understood it myself, you're telling them the movie is starting... on page 1. unless i want something special to happen, it doesn't have to fade, it can just start.
that being said, as often as i want to cheat and reclaim that line in my script, i always just use it. Who knows, it may get in the hands of one of the "rules" people and not having those two words might be held against me from the jump. |
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04-21-2012, 08:08 AM
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Re: Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?
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which I thought was probably a bad sign... I mean, if you try so hard...
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