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What about Lights changes in Sluglines ? Here is some situations make me problems. How to format when :
A) Noah's in his bedroom. He sleeps IN THE DARK. He hears a noise. HE TURNS ON THE LIGHT...
B) Noah's running in a HALF-DARKNESS corridor.
C) Noah works in a little place only lightened by a RED-LIGHT (as a photographic lab).
D) It's DUSK. Noah's looking at the SUNSET besides a river.
E) CAMERA is in the DARK ABYSS and goes up progressively in the water surface of the SEA where the suns rises. In the same sequence, CAMERA arrives on a beach in the middle of the day (Here, we have a change location and light).
Thx from France (and sorry for my poor english level)
1.If Noah is sleeping and he turns the light on, it is obvious that the light was turned off in the first place. Give your reader some credit.
2.This has nothing to do with formatting. Just be creative and find a way to describe that briefly. Or better yet, don't even write it. You're a screenwriter, not the lighting man.
3.Same as 2 -- just describe it briefly
4.No need to mention it's dusk (it's not wrong though). Day will suffice. Just describe the sunset
5. You are not the director. You're not in charge of anY camera directions. Just describe your scene.
Ok Julio, thx for the 1 and 4 answers. For the rest, you don't help me at all. So, to be more accurate, is it an amateurism to write :
- INT. A PHOTOGRAPHIC LAB - RED LIGHT
and
- INT. A CORRIDOR - HALF-NIGHT
For the last situation (5), director or not, it is the first scene of my script as travelling sequence from DARK ABYSS to a BEACH in the middle of the day, and there is not a free effect of my imagination. Things happened during this travelling IN ONE SEQUENCE so, what do i have to write in the slugline ?
- EXT. ABYSS / BEACH - NIGHT/DAY ?
or
- EXT. ABYSS - NIGHT
CAMERA starts from Abyss and goes up to the surface of the sea and the light grows....
UNCUT TO:
- EXT. SEA - DAY
CAMERA passes the sea to the beach...
Really, i don't have idea to formalize that correctly...