Hello there. Recently joined the forum as I've heard you're a sage lot...
I have a screenplay in which the majority of the action takes place in a generic big city. Thus in the slugs I simply refer to 'EXT. BUSINESS DISTRICT - LATE MORNING' etc...
However the first scene currently takes place in Slovakia. Now, there's no real reason it needs to be set in Slovakia (it just needs to be somewhere in Eastern Europe), so would it be clearer/more consistent to drop the exact location from the slug and simply insert a SUPER: "Somewhere in Eastern Europe"?
Mixing real and generic places feels like a bit of a no-no.
Secondly, at the end of this first scene we then shift to the generic city for the rest of the screenplay.
The second scene currently starts:
EXT. DOWNTOWN - MID-MORNING
A modern cityscape.
Throngs of people march through the streets. Pumping fists. They chant in unison.
Do people think that's explicit enough to differentiate from a rural scene in Eastern Europe?
Cheers
I have a screenplay in which the majority of the action takes place in a generic big city. Thus in the slugs I simply refer to 'EXT. BUSINESS DISTRICT - LATE MORNING' etc...
However the first scene currently takes place in Slovakia. Now, there's no real reason it needs to be set in Slovakia (it just needs to be somewhere in Eastern Europe), so would it be clearer/more consistent to drop the exact location from the slug and simply insert a SUPER: "Somewhere in Eastern Europe"?
Mixing real and generic places feels like a bit of a no-no.
Secondly, at the end of this first scene we then shift to the generic city for the rest of the screenplay.
The second scene currently starts:
EXT. DOWNTOWN - MID-MORNING
A modern cityscape.
Throngs of people march through the streets. Pumping fists. They chant in unison.
Do people think that's explicit enough to differentiate from a rural scene in Eastern Europe?
Cheers
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