Deiok:
Bro. Christaing scripts are not suppose to be sold, expecially stage play. Cause it use as a means of spreading the gospel and ministering to people.

u make me laugh.so christian writers should starve abi?
Wether action,love or religious,its a script and is supposed to be sold.

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VillageBoi:


Hello people.

The first thing you said is the answer - THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!

On the scene headings I disagree - Both the Nollywood & Hollywood headings would be written as -

EXT. MAZI OKONKWO'S COMPOUND - DAY

Unless it is ABSOLUTELY crucial to the scene no one will write in the exact time - no one. In fact I can't even think of an instance where it would even be crucial. There are only TWO acceptable times in a scene heading - DAY & NIGHT. No matter what time a scene takes place all that is evident on screen is whether it is day or night.

However, the times of DAY can be written as -

EXT. - MORNING TEXAS LANDSCAPE - SUNRISE
(As in the screenplay for Django)

That is a 'modifier' and is used to make the 'time' a bit more specific. Additional ones can be DUSK, DAWN, LATER, AFTERNOON, EVENING, EARLY EVENING - even the year for example; if you are writing a film that has time travel - just to make it more specific

There possibly might be such in 'BACK TO THE FUTURE' (sorry I dont have that script at the moment) but I can imagine different scenes of the same location to be something like -

EXT. RAILWAY STATION, 1856 - DAY

or

EXT. RAILWAY STATION, 1985 - DUSK

Why would they possibly do that? In order to aid the production - each of those scenes would have a very, very different set dressing ( a pre-prod topic for a different day).

Also a new scene can start exactly where the previous scene ended and it doesn't even have to be written as a 'proper' scene heading. For example (taken from the script LOOPER) -

Old Joe is on top of him, with a heavy blow knocking the gun aside, and with an even heavier one swinging down on Joe’s head, a fist and then
THE CORN FIELD, HOURS LATER
Joe wakes. Blood caked on his face. Headphones beside him, still squawking French lessons. Sits up.

From the above sample; time has passed so it really is new scene BUT it is also a continuation.

To all newbie writers - the thing is something Skillet said before is absolutely correct -


He basically means to be able to 'break' the rules you have to actually 'know' the rules.

Additionally, in the defence of Skillet - things change all the time. Scriptwriting does evolve and there may be a time when writing in the 'clock time' ie 5.32pm was acceptable... but definitely not today.

However, if you want to write it in your headings - you are free to, no one will kill you for it. Normally if the audience has to know the time as it is super crucial to the story then it is put in the description - you INSERT a clock or watch that shows the time or in the DIALOGUE - an actor says it.

Far too much writing in a 'scene heading' makes it harder to READ. Script readers scim and skip a lot. In fact you guys should read the script for LOOPER - In so many scenes they didn't even bother with DAY or NIGHT just -

INT. JOE'S APARTMENT
INT. WAITING ROOM
INT. BORDELLO ENTRANCE
EXT. CORN FIELD

I'm thinking they did that to make the reading faster - no idea. My theory is if they wrote DAY four pages back then assume everything remains DAY until you hit the next 'time change' in another scene heading. Totally weird but I guess that's what they did.

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