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Dear indietalk.com forum members

First of all, congratulations for your great web page. I am writing my first script.

My first question is about scene transitions in the script.

In one part of my script there is the following scene:

INT. MATT`S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - DAY

TIM is playing with a ball. His friend JOSH is sitting on the couch and looking at him


INT MATT`S HOUSE; GUEST ROOM - DAY

MARK is hidden in the guest room. He is staring at TIM


INT. MATT`S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - DAY

TIM and JOSH are talking in the living room


INT MATT`S HOUSE; HALLWAY - DAY

BEN is talking to MARK


INT. MATT`S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - DAY

JOSH is playing with a tennis ball. MARK watch TV


INT MATT`S HOUSE; GUEST ROOM - DAY

MARK stares at MARK


INT. MATT`S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - DAY

BEN shows up, and sits next to TIM AND JOSH


In this case the action is continuos. But is is necessary to use "CONTINUOUS" in each header?

If it is neccessary i believe the script will be like:


INT. MATT`S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - DAY

TIM is playing with a ball. His friend JOSH is sitting on the couch and looking at him


INT MATT`S HOUSE; GUEST ROOM - CONTINUOUS

MARK is hidden in the guest room. He is staring at TIM


INT. MATT`S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS

TIM and JOSH are talking in the living room


INT MATT`S HOUSE; HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS

BEN is talking to MARK


INT. MATT`S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS

JOSH is playing with a tennis ball. MARK watch TV


INT MATT`S HOUSE; GUEST ROOM - CONTINUOUS

MARK stares at MARK


INT. MATT`S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS

BEN shows up, and sits next to TIM AND JOSH


Best Regards, and thanks for your time!
 
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Im confused. Is this some sort of social gathering where a large number of people are sitting in different rooms? If that's the case, you may want to consider using simple lists such as:

INT. MATT'S HOUSE - DAY (CONTINUOUS)

1. Ben is in the living room staring at Mark

2. Tim and Josh are playing in the kitchen

3. Mark is talking to Mark
 
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Firm1 said:
Im confused. Is this some sort of social gathering where a large number of people are sitting in different rooms? If that's the case, you may want to consider using simple lists such as:

INT. MATT'S HOUSE - DAY (CONTINUOUS)

1. Ben is in the living room staring at Mark

2. Tim and Josh are playing in the kitchen

3. Mark is talking to Mark
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Do something like that, because as somebody else above said, there are way to many sluglines. I got really confused as to what was happening.
 
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sounds like your making editing decisions in the script. Your writing multiple scenes inter cut with each other. Write the complete scene in each room, or at leas a good portion of it before going to the next scene.
 
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