I want a to write a script that is a fictional story, within a documentary that is based on it. The characters from the fictional story, are being interviewed by a documentary filmmaker in the future tense, and they talk about their thoughts and feelings on the events that happened, as the movie flashes back to them. If this makes sense.
However, I am not sure how to format a script to intercut between documentary footage, and the fictional telling of the story. Do I put INT. INTERVIEW ROOM -- DAY -- DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE -- MONTHS LATER, for example?
Or do I format it a different way? District 9 was kind of like this but could not find the script for it online. I found JFK though, which is kind of like it, in the sense that it flashes back and forth between traditional fiction and documentary type footage:
http://sfy.ru/?script=jfk
Is their a different, more newer way of doing it than JFK though, or which formatting should I use to describe this? Frost/Nixon also has the same thing, but in that script, it does not describe the scenes as being documentary footage, so for all the readers knows, the documentary scenes could be intended as part of the fictional told movie, without actually intended as being seen through the eyes of documentary footage. If that makes sense.
http://www.script-showcase.com/Source/resources/screenplays/FrostNixon.pdf
Thanks.
However, I am not sure how to format a script to intercut between documentary footage, and the fictional telling of the story. Do I put INT. INTERVIEW ROOM -- DAY -- DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE -- MONTHS LATER, for example?
Or do I format it a different way? District 9 was kind of like this but could not find the script for it online. I found JFK though, which is kind of like it, in the sense that it flashes back and forth between traditional fiction and documentary type footage:
http://sfy.ru/?script=jfk
Is their a different, more newer way of doing it than JFK though, or which formatting should I use to describe this? Frost/Nixon also has the same thing, but in that script, it does not describe the scenes as being documentary footage, so for all the readers knows, the documentary scenes could be intended as part of the fictional told movie, without actually intended as being seen through the eyes of documentary footage. If that makes sense.
http://www.script-showcase.com/Source/resources/screenplays/FrostNixon.pdf
Thanks.
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