Why doesn't anybody use FADE IN: anymore?

[cmmora]

Originally Posted by JeffLowell

There are no rules.

No one who matters will care.

(Feel free to cut and paste this in any thread.)

I used LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED: Instead of FADE IN: in my script. I turned in the script to the producer last week. I was kinda hoping he would call me out on this supposed injustice.

Well, during our first NOTES meeting, he spoke at length about character motivations, cultural sensitivity... in other words STORY.

If I have learned anything over these many years of studying scripts and writing them, is that STORY is king. Tell an interesting, compelling, page turning story, than the WE SEE's, FADE IN's, CONT.'s will fall away and all that is left is the one thing that is supposed to stand on its own...

STORY.

p.s. So true, Jeff.

[sbbn]

Originally Posted by JeffLowell

There are no rules.

No one who matters will care.

(Feel free to cut and paste this in any thread.)

YES!

And yet it will probably be less than a week before another thread pops up with the "[three] RULES OF SCREENWRITING" or whatever with someone explaining how THESE rules are the absolutes...