I have a situation where a character walks into a room and there are five executives sitting behind a table.
One of the execs is an important character who had been references by name, but had not been seen on screen up to that poiint, the other characters are throwaways, it's 4 males, one female.
I have a few problems:
#1
The first to speak is a throwaway male exec who isn't named in the dialogue or anywhere else.
How do I identify this character when I'm writing his dialogue?
Do I just write Male Exec #1?
#2
The one significant exec character I would like to give a physsical description for, and this character had been discussed by name in the script before this point, but never appeared on screen, so the reader doesn't know which of the four men he is.
Is it ok for me to say the one in the middle is John, he looks like this, even tho there is nothing by that point that identifies him in the actual film, or is that to be avoided?
#3
At one point one of the jnr execs points at John while he is speaking ("...we believe and John agrees (gestures at John)") can I put in parentheses in the middle of the dialogue that he points at John at that point, or is that to be handled differently.
This is an important gesture, because it identifies for the first time for the audience (and the reader) who John is and he's an important character.
One of the execs is an important character who had been references by name, but had not been seen on screen up to that poiint, the other characters are throwaways, it's 4 males, one female.
I have a few problems:
#1
The first to speak is a throwaway male exec who isn't named in the dialogue or anywhere else.
How do I identify this character when I'm writing his dialogue?
Do I just write Male Exec #1?
#2
The one significant exec character I would like to give a physsical description for, and this character had been discussed by name in the script before this point, but never appeared on screen, so the reader doesn't know which of the four men he is.
Is it ok for me to say the one in the middle is John, he looks like this, even tho there is nothing by that point that identifies him in the actual film, or is that to be avoided?
#3
At one point one of the jnr execs points at John while he is speaking ("...we believe and John agrees (gestures at John)") can I put in parentheses in the middle of the dialogue that he points at John at that point, or is that to be handled differently.
This is an important gesture, because it identifies for the first time for the audience (and the reader) who John is and he's an important character.
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