Re: Bold face the sluglines?
You've conflated different types of style. Bold text is typographic style, whereas short paragraphs is writing style. In a script, writing style is important, but typographic style is not - evident by the industry's insistence on Courier.
Were writers devoid of style during the mono-font typewriter years?
A scriptwriter with typographic style is like a horse wearing jewellery.
No, I did not say that white space and light paragraphs are helpful, I said "there is so much accepted advice" about that, in order to make a point regardless of what I think about that.
(I think it's infantile - but I largely follow that advice.)
To "reset" the reader sounds rather extreme. Standard format scene headings (double spaced / all capitals / begin INT. or EXT.) are adequate to "reorient" the reader. If they are not adequate, then the reader is a halfwit, and making sluglines bold is unlikely to help.
It's quite a stretch to say a screenplay can, in any way, be "just like in a movie". I disagree. Words, however they appear, are remotely symbolic.
How on Earth can bold sluglines possibly match a writer's style - they're superficial ... shallow ... shouty ... oh, hang on ... now I see what you're getting at. Subtly done, you crafty writer. I like your style.
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Were writers devoid of style during the mono-font typewriter years?
A scriptwriter with typographic style is like a horse wearing jewellery.
No, I did not say that white space and light paragraphs are helpful, I said "there is so much accepted advice" about that, in order to make a point regardless of what I think about that.
(I think it's infantile - but I largely follow that advice.)
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