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I'm currently trying to write a scene that shows a mass of social media posts and newspaper pages splashing around the screen if this makes any sense? I'm struggling with how to format this to make it tangible.
Have a look at Sherlock - 'floating text' , 'a text message pops up' 'floating words superimpose'.
There are no definite rules on how to format. Some use dialogue to convey, some description. Just make sure it's clear what the audience is looking at.
Sherlock and House Of Cards use social media/texts/tweets etc. to great effect. Sherlock especially uses floating text, graphics, in all kinds of brilliant ways.
Be inventive. Be clear. Look at those BBC Writer's room scripts but be aware they're shooting scripts, like I said.
Ooh, and look at YouTube examples oh how they film/edit floating text/text msgs etc. That can also help you to convey it in written terms in the script.
Since the audience cannot pause the movie at the theater and only a bunch of anal retentive nerds in the world will actually pause their DVD or streaming to read the messages, you can say simply say that more and more social media posts pop-up covering the hole screen/everything, etc. Maybe focus on the message that pop-up last, if it is important, and describe what it says.
What the other messages say is up to the editors and graphic designers. Why not give your work to others when you can? If you are going to do this work yourself however, it would be a great idea to put references, jokes and Easter Eggs in them, so that the nerds will be happy to find out that they found something unique.