The A Slugline Is not A Scene thread brought up an interesting question. Why do we put sluglines or master scene headings in a spec spript?
Why not just tell the story without breaking it up into units preceded by master scene headings?
Why not just write present tense narrative (action/description) and dialogue that is formatted like a script, but without the sluglines. Let whoever buys the screenplay create a shooting script which specifies the location and content of each scene.
They do this anyway. The spec script gets revised prior to production, so why bother with master scene headings (sluglines)?
Why not just tell the story without breaking it up into units preceded by master scene headings?
Why not just write present tense narrative (action/description) and dialogue that is formatted like a script, but without the sluglines. Let whoever buys the screenplay create a shooting script which specifies the location and content of each scene.
They do this anyway. The spec script gets revised prior to production, so why bother with master scene headings (sluglines)?
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