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stevie
Posted: June 30th, 2009, 6:11pm
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Hi guys. Just wanted some advice on a techie question. Ok, I'm doing a short and a character has scenes of memories from his life. Literally, certain events of his life will 'flash' up. Each is in a different year, a couple of years apart, with 4 time periods in all. There will be brief action lines and dialogue in each one. the whole bit would be only a minute of screen time, maybe less. I had thought to write it as montage with supers saying the locale and year. But I don't think dialogue is in montages? After the scenes it will go back to the present time in the story. any ideas? Cheers
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rendevous
Posted: June 30th, 2009, 6:28pm
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I'm sure you can have dialogue in montages Stevie. It's covered in
http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1100748149/ You could have one of your scenes then...
INT. 17 STEVIE STREET - KITCHEN - JULY 1985 - DAY
Karen kisses Joe then takes the keys from him
KAREN
My keys, not yours.
INT. 24 RINGO STREET - LIVING ROOM - DECEMBER 1996 - DAY
Karen is now heavily pregnant. Joe takes the keys from her hand.
JOE
Now these keys are mine darling.
INT. 69 LENNON AVENUE - JULY 2005 - DAY
Karen now has short hair and earrings the size of tennis balls.
KAREN
What do you mean you've lost the keys?
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stevie
Posted: June 30th, 2009, 7:00pm
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Thanks RV! Love the street names... Ok, I checked that old thread. I'll have to go with flashbacks I think, as my scenes aren't really montage. I'll use supers for the place and year and see how it goes. It's nearly done and I hope to send it to Don in a couple of days. Cheers buddy.
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Kaycee
Posted: July 11th, 2009, 10:16am
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You can have dialouge in montages. I'll admit it doesn't look nice but you can have them. If you read pilot of scrubs theres one in there.
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