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  • TV Broadcast between scenes

    Hi, ya'll.

    I've run into a problem I've never encountered and couldn't find any previous threads on it. I want to show a TV broadcast between scenes, but the broadcast is meant for the audience. None of the characters will be watching it.

    How do I slug something like this? I'm not sure what the location would be.

    Any help is mightily appreciated!

    hepcat

  • #2
    Re: TV Broadcast between scenes

    Whatever you do, just do your best to make it clear. A few years ago, I went looking high and low for "an answer" to this sort of situation, and my sense is there isn't a basic answer.

    In part, it depends on how complicated the scene on TV is. If it's a news broadcast, then that's kinda simple, no slugline needed:

    Code:
    ON TV: REPORTER 1, outside an office building.
    
                            REPORTER 1 (ON TV)
                  Police sources tell me...
    But if the TV shows us 20 seconds of an episode of CSI Miami, that can get be tougher. I'd probably use a mini-slug.

    Code:
    ON THE TV
    
    TOM, DICK, and NANCY are seen in an apartment.
    
                            NANCY (ON TV)
                  No enemies that [U]I[/U] know about.
    
    [more, then finishing with]
    
    BACK TO SCENE
    
    [or with the slugline for the next scene]
    "are seen", "is seen". IMO, that gives the feel that what we're seeing is distant. Again, just make it clear.

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    • #3
      Re: TV Broadcast between scenes

      I expected there wasn't any hard and fast rule about this. Thanks for your help!

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      • #4
        Re: TV Broadcast between scenes

        Tell me why you shouldn't cut the TV scene(s) entirely?
        "I am the story itself; its source, its voice, its music."
        - Clive Barker, Galilee

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        • #5
          Re: TV Broadcast between scenes

          Originally posted by TwoBrad Bradley View Post
          Tell me why you shouldn't cut the TV scene(s) entirely?
          For the same reason they didn't cut the TV scenes in Slumdog. Not much of a movie without them.

          Thanks for the help, guys!

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