In my script, I have a section of the plot where a detective is following a suspect and is using a parabolic microphone to listen in on what he says. He follows him to a building and records him, but he is not talking. He walks into a room where the detective can not see him but hear what is happening through the mic and records it. He records a heist happening, and uses the sounds of the heist to peace together clues later and figure out what is going on and what the suspect is up too.
However, I do not want to show the scene where he is recording the heist. My script is too long with rewrites and I need to cut the scenes down. I would like to skip this scene and have the detective tell his friend later, what he recorded and describe it. He can play back the recording to his friend and they listen in, but I do not want to actually show the scene where he follows the suspect and records the heist.
Will this make sense to the audience though? Will it raise more questions, like why did they plot skip ahead and this was never shown. And when it comes to the detective figuring out that it was a heist that happened, and why it happened and for what, will the audience have a tough time piecing it together since they never saw him follow the suspect and record the heist at all maybe?
Can I make this work, if I tell instead of show?
However, I do not want to show the scene where he is recording the heist. My script is too long with rewrites and I need to cut the scenes down. I would like to skip this scene and have the detective tell his friend later, what he recorded and describe it. He can play back the recording to his friend and they listen in, but I do not want to actually show the scene where he follows the suspect and records the heist.
Will this make sense to the audience though? Will it raise more questions, like why did they plot skip ahead and this was never shown. And when it comes to the detective figuring out that it was a heist that happened, and why it happened and for what, will the audience have a tough time piecing it together since they never saw him follow the suspect and record the heist at all maybe?
Can I make this work, if I tell instead of show?