I am so tired of this conversation now, that I think I might give up scriptwriting.
Cut to? Page 3
Apparently David Tennant is involved in a BBC scheme, a rehearsed reading of competion entries in a small studio theatre in Swiss Cottage, with a Q and A session afterwards in the bar. Entry deadline sometime in June.
Ahem.
Oh really?
*takes it up again*
Well no I just wanted to re-kindle your passion Zooo. Men lie, regrettably.
Hee.
I'll just go and think about it by myself for a bit, instead.
Andrew's decided to do it as a radio script now, apparently.
I have seen writer's scripts with 'CUT TO' in them, I don't think it's that big of a no-no. As long as your script isn't full of, "the camera pans across the room, then we zoom in on the right side of Bill's face..etc". That stuff is the director's job. But putting a simple 'CUT TO' isn't that big of a problem.
Quote: Griff @ May 6 2008, 9:38 PM BSTI think Final Draft forces you to choose something along these lines for scene transitions, either CUT TO or DISSOLVE TO or FADE TO or whatever. But it's a while since I used FD so I could be talking bollocks again.
The most recent versions of Final Draft let you change scenes without a transition.
I only use CUT TO: if it's imperative to understanding the script. For example, I reckon if you were writing something like Family Guy, with its quick cutaway gags, using CUT TO: would underline the nature of the joke.
Quote: zooo @ May 6 2008, 6:08 PM BSTI am so tired of this conversation now, that I think I might give up scriptwriting.
Your avatar does loook soooo tired...
He's having a little sleepy.
Too much running away from aliens and that.
Yeah I think it's fair to say you can put what you like in a script. I guess I was just answering Andrew's question as to what he should put in that instance.
I'm with Zooo.
Well not literally.
Ooh, Marc P, I just looked at your profile. You've written for 'Stenders!
Tell me something you wrote! (If you can remember anything)
It will be exciting.
For me, anyway.
And that's what's important.
Oooh, and, is there an actual house rule that every character has to say 'would of' instead of 'would have'?
I've always wondered.
yeah everything has to be written in cockerney.
Quote: zooo @ May 6 2008, 6:08 PM BSTI am so tired of this conversation now, that I think I might give up scriptwriting.
I enjoyed this one but side with the idea that one script-reader's ideal format is another reader's potential no-no. As long as the format is a very close copy of 'industry standards' (and I appreciate how subjective that small phrase is) and it grabs within the first few pages, then it'll do the job.