In my quest for rewriting advice I revisited concepts I'd heard of a long time ago and one of them was sequencing and although the basic idea is simple enough - each sequence is a complete mini-story - I'm a bit vague on the specifics.
What is a sequence? At first I thought it referred to the key 'action'' scenes but even the most high-octane blockbusters have moments of calm and dialogue that must be included in a sequence and so I thought it means to any scene but there's going to be way, way more than 15 in a feature length film.
How many sequences? I've seen reference from 8 to 15 sequences across a script and that seems a huge disparity.
What constitutes a sequence? As a film jumps from one character to another, each with their own goals (eg: Kyle looking for Sarah to save her, the Terminator looking for Sarah to kill her) is that still one sequence or one for each character and running at the same time?
When do some sequences end? Did one sequence ended when the terminator was foiled in the night club and Kyle and Sarah got away or did it continue as it got back up almost immediately and resumed its mission.
Do any DD'ers swear by sequencing?
What is a sequence? At first I thought it referred to the key 'action'' scenes but even the most high-octane blockbusters have moments of calm and dialogue that must be included in a sequence and so I thought it means to any scene but there's going to be way, way more than 15 in a feature length film.
How many sequences? I've seen reference from 8 to 15 sequences across a script and that seems a huge disparity.
What constitutes a sequence? As a film jumps from one character to another, each with their own goals (eg: Kyle looking for Sarah to save her, the Terminator looking for Sarah to kill her) is that still one sequence or one for each character and running at the same time?
When do some sequences end? Did one sequence ended when the terminator was foiled in the night club and Kyle and Sarah got away or did it continue as it got back up almost immediately and resumed its mission.
Do any DD'ers swear by sequencing?
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