Re: Scriptnotes 134: New Format
PDFs display page numbers because screenwriting software generates page numbers. It's not that they're dead because they don't exist... they do.
It's dead because they're irrelevant. So are percentages.
All that matters is sequences, IMO.
No, I don't worry about writing skills becoming subordinate to page design skills. Funny thing about Hollywood... when you ask someone to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a document, they suddenly become really good at seeing through irrelevant crap.
It's not about covering the food in ketchup. It's about freeing the writer from a mid-20th century format, which restrains our ability to write the movie as we wish.
Originally posted by gregbeal
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It's dead because they're irrelevant. So are percentages.
All that matters is sequences, IMO.
No, I don't worry about writing skills becoming subordinate to page design skills. Funny thing about Hollywood... when you ask someone to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a document, they suddenly become really good at seeing through irrelevant crap.
It's not about covering the food in ketchup. It's about freeing the writer from a mid-20th century format, which restrains our ability to write the movie as we wish.
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