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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
Screenwriting
Format for flashbacks within flashbacks?
It's me again. I'm still working on my script, and as I was looking over it again for formatting and what not, I noticed that the first act is essentially a flashback. Within that flashback is another event that takes place further in the past. I haven't yet tried putting things in chronological order, but I sort of like the idea of the structure of the first act being more layered, especially since that in itself can add a new dimension to the story.
If I decide to stick with the flashback within a flashback idea, how exactly would I format the tag lines?
If I decide to stick with the flashback within a flashback idea, how exactly would I format the tag lines?
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com: [nq:1]It's me again. I'm still working on my script, and as I was looking over it again for formatting and ... [/nq] I think you should definitely precede each flashback with the main character doing waves in the air with his hands, like in "Wayne's World".
- com: [nq:1]It's me again.
- I'm still working on my script, and as I was looking over it again for formatting and ...
- [/nq] I think you should definitely precede each flashback with the main character doing waves in the air with his hands, like in "Wayne's World".
- jaybee
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@reader2.panix.com:
[nq:1]It's me again. I'm still working on my script, and as I was looking over it again for formatting and ... If I decide to stick with the flashback within a flashback idea, how exactly would I format the tag lines?[/nq]
I think you should definitely precede each flashback with the main character doing waves in the air with his hands, like in "Wayne's World".
jayb
[nq:1]It's me again. I'm still working on my script, and as I was looking over it again for formatting and ... If I decide to stick with the flashback within a flashback idea, how exactly would I format the tag lines?[/nq]
I think you should definitely precede each flashback with the main character doing waves in the air with his hands, like in "Wayne's World".
jayb
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If I decide to stick with the flashback within a flashback idea, how exactly would I format the tag lines?
If you have various scenes taking place at various times within your script, it probably makes sense not to think of them as "flashbacks within flashbacks" or to attempt to format them in that way -- but to simply mark them according to when they take place --
INT.,
If you have various scenes taking place at various times within your script, it probably makes sense not to think of them as "flashbacks within flashbacks" or to attempt to format them in that way -- but to simply mark them according to when they take place --
INT.,
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[nq:1]If I decide to stick with the flashback within a flashback idea, how exactly would I format the tag lines? ... when you are -- which, when you're bouncing chararacters around in time and space, is going to be very important.[/nq]
Very smart way of doing it., Apart from that comma thing you do.,
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"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." --Elmore Leonard
Very smart way of doing it., Apart from that comma thing you do.,
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"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." --Elmore Leonard
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[nq:2]If I decide to stick with the flashback within a ... in time and space, is going to be very important.[/nq]
[nq:1]Very smart way of doing it., Apart from that comma thing you do.,[/nq]
I like the way he did it, too. And since nobody's said it yet, you should watch Passage to Marseille to see how that was done.
[nq:1]Very smart way of doing it., Apart from that comma thing you do.,[/nq]
I like the way he did it, too. And since nobody's said it yet, you should watch Passage to Marseille to see how that was done.
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