What is this mime thing all about!!!

I'm gonna write tonight so I told my wife no sex tonight... apparently she didn't know what i was talking about(she has a bad memory) but told me to make valuable time of the extra 2 mins(1 min 30seconds to remove clothes)

Mark

Anyone else have the first draft done?  All mine needs is a good scrubbing and a title.

I have FADE IN: and my first Slug.

It's really coming together nicely so far.  Could be my best work ever.  I hope the other 99% turns out as strong as my opening.

Ok I have a serious question for a change...

If you use multiple rooms in the motel should you use a slug or a minor slug
In other words:

INT. Room seventeen - continuous

Blah blah blah happened
INT Room Twenty - continuous

More blah blah happened

or

Room seventeen

Blah blah happened

Room Twenty

Blah blah happened.

Also as everything is happening in one night.... Should we finish slugs with continuous or moments later after everyone..... I prefer the minor slugs... easier on the eye.

Mark

after every slug not everyone

Mark, in all seriousness as well, it depends, IMO.

You first have to set each scene and that will require a full Slug, as well as a description of the setting.

If you then want to switch back and forth between rooms, you could use mini's.

Does this have to take place in a single night?  Did I miss that requirement?  Damn, mine is an epic, evolving over several decades and many hurricanes.  This could be an issue for me.

Quoted from Don Odd but interesting character(s) take refuge from a hurricane in a beat-up motel and are forced to make a choice between good or evil in order to survive the night.

Quoted from Dreamscale Does this have to take place in a single night?  Did I miss that requirement?  Damn, mine is an epic, evolving over several decades and many hurricanes.  This could be an issue for me.

It says "Survive the night" but I doubt the anybody really cares unless it's not low budget. But now you've told us your idea so the fun is gone into guessing who's script is whos.

Quoted from JC Cleveland Mark, in all seriousness as well, it depends, IMO. You first have to set each scene and that will require a full Slug, as well as a description of the setting. If you then want to switch back and forth between rooms, you could use mini's.

Cheers Jeff... That makes sense

Quoted from JC Cleveland Does this have to take place in a single night?  Did I miss that requirement?  Damn, mine is an epic, evolving over several decades and many hurricanes.  This could be an issue for me.

You're right... For some reason I thought it all happened in a night oops   Several decades of mimes... Sweeeet

Mark

Quoted from Gage Anyone else have the first draft done?  All mine needs is a good scrubbing and a title.

Yup I'm done. I wrote two...not sure which one I will enter though. No scrubbing. No polishing...just bare to the bones first drafts.

Oh shit...it has to be in a motel, as well?

Fuck...what was I thinking?

Wait...if I only show night scenes, I could get around the single night and have it be 1,000's of years.  The motel part though...I don't know.

Dena, your new avatar is awesome, as well, as Cornie's.  Very funny.

You better edit those damn scripts, girl!  Make 'em shine.  C'mon now...

Quoted from Dreamscale Dena, your new avatar is awesome, as well, as Cornie's.  Very funny. You better edit those damn scripts, girl!  Make 'em shine.  C'mon now...

Still learning how to 'rewrite' hate it like the plague Jeffie! But I did write in a mime in one of mime haha

I used mime as my first Slug.

EXT. MIME - DAY

Then, I just have my mime walking around doing mime stuff all night in the beat up motel.  No dialogue until the final line, when I have Christopher Lee do a V.O. That sums up everything the mime just did, in case any readers didn't get the correct visual of what the mime was acting out.

It truly may be my swan song.