Guys, I need to bounce some more ideas.
A while back I started a thread about montage. I wanted to end my screenplay with a montage with a voice over letter (which incidentally works brilliantly - so thanks for the advice).
I now realise there are two other areas of my screenplay that are best written as a montage. These are a long journey (which I can't just show him starting and ending because something happens on it), and another where my protag. makes something crucial to the plot.
Do you think three montages in a s/p too much? It is genuinely not laziness that forces my hand, but simply to act these processes out in scenes makes the s/p way too long.
Any opinions would be gratefully received.
Priestess.
A while back I started a thread about montage. I wanted to end my screenplay with a montage with a voice over letter (which incidentally works brilliantly - so thanks for the advice).
I now realise there are two other areas of my screenplay that are best written as a montage. These are a long journey (which I can't just show him starting and ending because something happens on it), and another where my protag. makes something crucial to the plot.
Do you think three montages in a s/p too much? It is genuinely not laziness that forces my hand, but simply to act these processes out in scenes makes the s/p way too long.
Any opinions would be gratefully received.
Priestess.
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