lazerbeak

Diverting as the techie jostles of scriptwriting/writers can be, personally I'd worry more about the content of the scene than what it's called, jj.

As far as I can see, all the suggested headings, including your own, are fine. I might go for Ext. Art Gallery if the building features heavily in the scene, but it doesn't really matter. As long as you use the same clear description for the same location whenever it appears, don't worry too much about it.

lin

Yes they still appear in spec scripts...that's why I said they were useless vestiges.

I think we all know what shooting scripts are and waht they look like.

Yeah, I know...readers are always people who never sold any writing in their life and think their particular way is the only way to do things and love to find out ways they can exercise their power by shitcanning scripts.

This is SOOOOO sophomore. Students learn a little something, then flaunt it around and tell everybody else how ignorant they are.

Thing is...it's not really a big deal either way to a script. Which you'd know if you'd read many.

If you wanted to communicate with jjshell privately without anybody else having an opinion, you should have sent a PM. You posted in a public forum that had been ongoing...and pretty much resolved before you jumped in and started telling us how hip you are.

You are an amateur. You're new on this site. And....you're a student. Learn.

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lin

By the way, what happened to ol' jj, anyway?

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Wallmaker

Lin,

JJ isn't here anymore and lazerbeak has given a simplified answer. (Thank you, Lazerbeak.)

I'm not here to make you sound ignorant and I'm not here to be petty. You're right, I'm new here to this particular forum, I didn't expect to be challenged and accused of a bandwith of ???? marks when I tried to simply explain myself. All of this doesn't matter exteremely much, but the reason I was specific is because a specific question was asked and there were several different answers... infact the one you quite rudely discredited from Mammamia happened to be (in my opinion) the better answer.

Perhaps I should have PMed him, or maybe I foolishly thought it would be helpful for the next person who had a similar question. By saying this is for JJshell, not you Lin, it was for any guy or gal who had such a question. Since you already have your answer, it's not really oriented to you.

I don't understand what being a student or an "amatuer" has to do with anything or why you have labelled me such. Being a contest winner, the last time I checked, doesn't boost a person into professional status. I realize I know nothing about your actual body of work, but you don't know about mine either. I certainly don't condescend to you for being a writer/criminal, nor do I whip out my "creds" to prove my authority over trivial matters.

But maybe that will make you treat me as a member of the forum? Not just a sophomoric know it all? Is that what it takes? Proof I have earned my right to be an asshole? Sure, I can do that if you PM me.

Micheal Arndt was a script reader for years and said it was an incredible education. And now he has little Miss Sunshine. You seem to make a great deal of assumptions and hope that perhaps I don't know enough so I can't counter you. I don't shitcan a lot of scripts, you go to each one with hope in your heart that you aren't wasting your time. What I said early was just the bottom line: a script is poorly formatted and hard to read, I have to toss it. I'm not even talking content here, but often it follows.

It's probably best if you have any more personal attacks to send my way, to just PM me to let this post die. I probably should PM you this, but the chances of you reading it might be nil. Since it seems you like to have the last words on a post, my chances increase by posting it in this thread.

Cheers,
Kay

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lin

I've been a professional writer for decades.
I have a TV series in development by two fairly well known producers.

Read back...the insults pretty well started when you decided to start throwing the word "ignorant" around because you didn't agree. So don't whine.

Like I said...you're an amateur, and a student. If you try to come off as a know-it-all you're going to look bad and people are going to chafe you. That's not just true on this forum: there are lots of very high-level forums devoted mostly to screenwriting. If you don't know they are, ask. But if you go into them telling everybody they don't know anything about film because they're not still in school, they will give you a hard time.

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jjshell

I'm not gone, just following the interesting discussion.

lin

See what you started

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lin

I think you can see some rationales here, and that there is some wiggle room on format, not cast in stone.
Keep reading scripts, writing scripts and you reach a point where you don't have to worry about it anymore.

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jjshell

It's a great thread, thanks to all the parties