I question popped up in Ste's Soulshadows eisode as to whether the slug should be INT or EXT when inside a stadium.  Weirdly I have a similar pondry now, a scene that takes place in a trench.  Should this be EXT as it's outside or INT as it's closed in?  Any suggestions...

The only example I could find was Ferris Bueller's Day Off...

EXT. WRIGLEY FIELD. STANDS 166

Ferris sits down with the baseball. He shakes his stinging
paw. On either side of him are Cameron and Sloane. Cameron's
scarfing nachos.

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In the scene, he's in the stands of a stadium. So that's Ext 1 Int 0

What we need is the screenplay for Goal!

Anyone know where we can find it?

Difinitely EXT.

EXT. IN A TRENCH - NIGHT

SEVEN mud-caked DOUGH BOYS hunker under a rain of German artilliary fire.

I would agree that a trench is probably EXT.

But I am not so sure about a football stadium (which is where this query stems from). Apart from anything else - if it is EXT. but the stadium has a retracting roof (like the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff) and part of the plot revolves around it closing - does it then become INT?

My personal feeling is that it would be INT/EXT.

Definitely INT.  The camera and action is "inside" the stadium.  The stadium is a structure, once you walk through the stadium gates, you're inside it.

Quoted from Dreamscale Definitely INT.  The camera and action is "inside" the stadium.  The stadium is a structure, once you walk through the stadium gates, you're inside it.

I agree with that.

Trenches is easily


EXT.  TRENCH - DAY



Any Given Sunday, Oliver Stone's revision, has it as:


EXT.  "SHARK" STADIUM (MIAMI, USA) - LATE DAY (ANY SUNDAY)

A shooting script may call it EXT because of the lighting involved and neccessary, but in reality, it is an INT scene, as you are defintely inside a structure.  Toom take it a step further, would it change whether or not the top is open?  It's still the same structure, top open or closed, and because of that, both are INT scenes.

I'm just giving examples, pal.

I hear ya.  What is your opinion?

I don't agree, Jeff. You may be inside a stadium but you are still physically outside (under the open sky so to speak).

Cool, thanks guys.

Quoted from Dreamscale I hear ya.  What is your opinion?

I don't know.  

If it's an open stadium, I'd do EXT

If closed, I'd go INT.

I tried writing a wrestling script once, and I'd use INT but of course those events are with roofs over the arena.