![]() And that’s okay! The screenplay format is a set of shared assumptions, not a straightjacket. ![]() But you can force it back to action with an exclamation point:īoth Highland and Fountain are sophisticated enough to catch most edge cases, but we’re always finding new situations in which writers are trying to do something that doesn’t quite match expected behavior. Highland reads that third tick as a forced scene header, because it starts with a single period. Perhaps you have a time bomb, and you’re using ellipses to indicate the countdown. The forced action trick can be useful in other cases where you want to override default behavior. ON TV: a newscast of the contentious aftermath of the prize fight.īound and unarmed, unconscious to the activity within the vault. Pacing in Benedict’s suite, biting her nails, debating whether to blow the whistle on Danny. Tailing the van, security goons piled into each, and maybe we NOTICE (or maybe not) the Rolls-Royce tailing them. ![]() Now empty, Livingston’s monitors still displaying the masked men in the vault. And during the above rant by Benedict, we view.
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