If you read the Worldplayer columns you noticed that one was devoted to this topic. It makes you wonder if we might have one or two establishing shots too many in our scripts.
I know that there is no hard and fast rule -- sometimes we need to open up our script and establish a scene outdoors if we've been confined to the same apartment for a previous scene(s).
But should we go outdoors just to tell the reader that it is DAY before we pick up again in the same apartment the next morning?
As I said, we all know "that it depends...." But I would still like some advice on this topic, specifically if we should rethink adding an establising shot outdoors when -- what the heck -- we should just add DAY to the next indoor scene and move along.
I know that there is no hard and fast rule -- sometimes we need to open up our script and establish a scene outdoors if we've been confined to the same apartment for a previous scene(s).
But should we go outdoors just to tell the reader that it is DAY before we pick up again in the same apartment the next morning?
As I said, we all know "that it depends...." But I would still like some advice on this topic, specifically if we should rethink adding an establising shot outdoors when -- what the heck -- we should just add DAY to the next indoor scene and move along.
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