hey all. I am starting a new screenplay and, amazingly, new formatting questions hit me that I haven't thought of before. you truly never cease to learn...
1) Re: POV... what is more effective? "POV Anthony: he sees the woman enter the building" or "Anthony watches the woman as she enters the building" ?
2) How do you format a sequence that is mostly composed of shots, rather than scenes? I don't want to do "Ext. Air Traffic Control- DAY" if all I am doing is showing an Air Traffic Control tower.
3) How would you format a chase sequence in which a character barrels through, say, 5-6 different locations without really focusing on any? The nature of the sequence is kinetic, and again I don't want to have scene headings.
4) if you flashback for, say, 20 pages, do you put the year of the flashback in each scene heading for the sake of clarity? or does that confuse even more?
5) do you write FLASHBACK for the flashbacks? or just dissolve (or cut) to the flashback with the date in the slug line and leave it at that?
Thank you !
TP
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