Quoted from Equinox I don't think a time or era should be included in the slugline. I use the SUPER: ... approach for this. It's also what you usually see in movies or television, a text is fading in saying something like "10 YEARS EARLIER"... Probably that's what they would make from a slugline as well, because a slugline is not visible in the moved picture.

Yep - that would work quite well if you had a few instances in a script - not sure how it would look if you had 50.

Quoted from DustinBowcot Just jump without saying anything and let the viewer figure it out. If some dumb shit gets confused, don't beat yourself up over it... remember, they are a dumb shit.

I lean this way, maybe without the dumb shit part .

Read All You Need Is Kill. Constantly jumping back to the day before and never writing "24 hours earlier" or "we jump back to the day before," et al.. Reason is the narrative gets you on track (if you're not a dumb shit). You could easily say old Bob and young Bob to set the time and use the TV program to show what year it is, or use a landline phone with a 25 foot cord versus smart phone, what have you. Once you get in the swing, any (dumb shit) will follow.

My dumb shit comment was more aimed at the writers that will likely complain about such a way of doing things when they read it. Not the viewers and general (even pro) readers who are usually very good at following things.

When reviewing the work of others, writers tend to play devil's advocate (often in the misguided belief they are helping the writer) and in doing so, dumb themselves down to a level they believe the average viewer is at. So they act all confused even though they know exactly what you're doing. I just find it a bit annoying... hence the dumb shit comment.

Quoted from cloroxmartini I lean this way, maybe without the dumb shit part . Read All You Need Is Kill. Constantly jumping back to the day before and never writing "24 hours earlier" or "we jump back to the day before," et al.. Reason is the narrative gets you on track (if you're not a dumb shit). You could easily say old Bob and young Bob to set the time and use the TV program to show what year it is, or use a landline phone with a 25 foot cord versus smart phone, what have you. Once you get in the swing, any (dumb shit) will follow.

Some people won't get past the CAPS in that script, lol.

Quoted from eldave1 Yep - that would work quite well if you had a few instances in a script - not sure how it would look if you had 50.

True, but if you got 50, there's something wrong with your script in general.

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Quoted from Max Some people won't get past the CAPS in that script, lol.

Isn't that the truth.

I use the slug-line approach but ITALICIZE it if it occurs in another period.  So BOLD slugs would be present, Italicized slugs would be the past, and underlined slugs would be the future.

So in a way, it'd work like this:

INT. LOUNGE - NIGHT
INT. LOUNGE - NIGHT
INT. LOUNGE - NIGHT

I'd add in NOTES prior to every FIRST time switch, I.E: NOTE: Italicized slugs = past, Underlined slugs = future or something of the sort, so people REMEMBER where they are without being reminded every two seconds that they're in a new time period.

But that's my way.  The prod-co I'm working with seems to like the style as it's easy for them to interpret.