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Ccolebrook

Hello screenwriters. I've got a question regarding sluglines. I regularly read screenplays and I've seen it both ways but I'd like to gather some opinions.

My question: Is it better to write the location, and then the specific room? or the other way around?

For example:
INT. JOHN'S BATHROOM - JOHN'S HOUSE - DAY
John shaves.

or

INT. JOHN'S HOUSE - JOHN'S BATHROOM - DAY
John shaves.

Thanks,
Connor
 
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It must be so that has to do which one you as a reader remembers better. Mostly it is the house. Then it's better to write that first.

However if the film takes place in a lots of bathrooms and we in this scene are back in John's bathroom and we also know his bathroom on his boat...
 
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Ccolebrook said:
Hello screenwriters. I've got a question regarding sluglines. I regularly read screenplays and I've seen it both ways but I'd like to gather some opinions.

My question: Is it better to write the location, and then the specific room? or the other way around?

For example:
INT. JOHN'S BATHROOM - JOHN'S HOUSE - DAY
John shaves.

or

INT. JOHN'S HOUSE - JOHN'S BATHROOM - DAY
John shaves.

Thanks,
Connor
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Master location is always mentioned FIRST:

Code: 
INT. JOHN'S HOUSE - BATHROOM - DAY

John shaves.

You do NOT need to mention that the bathroom also belongs to John since you mentioned that the main location -- the HOUSE -- is already his.

filmy
 
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@ caseyhein You think like me here.

I write like this nowadays and I like it much better without the -

INT. BATHROOM DAY


Edit: there should be three empty hits (what are they called) in front of DAY
The page is showing it wrongly.
 
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Filman said:
@ caseyhein You think like me here.

I write like this nowadays and I like it much better without the -

INT. BATHROOM DAY


Edit: there should be three empty hits (what are they called) in front of DAY
The page is showing it wrongly.
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Right or wrong, that would be the way I do it.

INT. BATHROOM DAY

Without the "Master Location".
 
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