Do people still use 'CONTINUOUS' in a script?

[harmonica44]

When reading a lot of modern scripts, it's not used much at all anymore, so I was wondering if I should use it. Will readers possibly get confused?

 

[Cryogenic]

Do you mean continued, like when your action or dialogue continues to a new page? I use Movie Magic so if my action or dialogue overlaps to a new page it automatically enters it in... Or do you mean something else. If it is what I am describing why would anyone get confused?

 

[harmonica44]

I mean when someone enters from a conference room to a hallway for example. Some older scripts will write continuous in the scene heading like INT. HALLWAY -- CONTINUOUS, for example. That way it is more clear that that scene is right after the old one and in the same time sequence.

 

[rayw]

Yes.

Use "continuous in the scene heading like INT. HALLWAY -- CONTINUOUS, for example".
Do not use MOREs and CONTINUEDs at the end of pages. ("No sh!t there's more and it's continued. Sheeesssh.")

 

[FantasySciFi]

CONTINUOUS as a slug descriptor is useful if the space in which the scene is filmed has discrete locations where the action is shot. But you have to weigh against that giving the location its own description.

In the case of an apartment where the kitchen is visible to the living room, it would be appropriate. While a kitchen as a distinct room, you'd probably opt to give a separate slugline.

Using more/continued for scenes that carry over has gone away. However, it is still helpful--at least to me as a reader--to see when a character's dialogue extends to the next page. If reserved for characters, it happens fairly rarely. I would not ding a script for that but readers' tastes vary.