I mean, you do not use something like PLANET EARTH - USA - CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES. If someone does not know where BUDAPEST is, let him/her look it up. But I would not put HUNGARY into the slugline. CIRCUS - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY (PAST)Īs for the country in the slugline, you can do that if you want to and need to. And it is trivial, but I would use parentheses: However, I would format it a bit differently. I think that using PAST or PRESENT would be fine. That seemed a bit too much for me to do in a spec pilot. Only in my case, I did not bold and underlined them.
That is why I have used PAST and PRESENT in the slugs. The pilot has different locations around Europe and USA, switches between past and present showcasing the consequences of what was done in the past and how it reflects on the present day. I have combined Isis, Trump, and NATO with an idiot's idea that slingshots the world on the verge of destruction.
#Slugline in the past tv
This is for my TV pilot, a sort of Game of Thrones, only on a worldwide scale. Thanks also for your second suggestion considering the time in a slug (past and present). I will try to find something similar for my five locations. To name each scene with the house owner's name would increase the number of actors from maybe 7 to 12, which is (at least for me) ridiculously high, considering that this five play no significant role in the story ( I simply name them male house owner, a mother.)
#Slugline in the past movie
I often read that the upper-ups in this business love to count how many names are capped in the script and so determine how expensive the movie would be considering the number of actors. No text, just what the MC does in each of them. In this case, these locations come up only once in the story, and each of them consists of three to six lines of action. Customer Home #1) just because you don't want to be specific for the sake of the post or if this is how you really want to describe the location.I also prefer to identify the location with its owner's name whenever possible. I don't know if you're using numbers, (i.e. If you can identify the location in some other way - preferably by the owner's name or by the actual location - New York Customer's Home and Idaho Customer's Home - then you won't need numbers and the reader will immediately know which place you're talking about.Ī number doesn't give you information and the best thing you can do when you've got multiple locations is to find a few words that tell you where you are. Usually, I dislike number things and/or people, because when I read that sort of thing in a script, I find it hard to identify locations and people by number. Customer Home #1) just because you don't want to be specific for the sake of the post or if this is how you really want to describe the location.
#Slugline in the past series
I have in between scenes in which something important happens at a third location and do not want - cannot use a series of shots, a montage, or similar devices.I don't know if you're using numbers, (i.e. HOTEL ISLAY - SMILEY'S ROOM - DAY - PRESENT I have in between scenes in which something important happens at a third location and do not want - cannot use a series of shots, a montage, or similar devices. Which of the loglines would be the best for this This is how they did it in the same script:Ģ-I have an MC who does his work in the gardens of different customers. I have established at the beginning the basic of the story, what happens where, but because of the time jumps, it must be clear to the reader in which time every scene takes place.Īs addition to this, can I write the country in which a scene takes place as a part of a slugline if you switch between two different countries(I want avoid using a super for this because it could lead up to an extra page of unnecessary text). Would PAST and PRESENT be accepted in a TV pilot (and other formats of scripts) or is there a better way to express that in a slugline?
HOTEL ISLAY - SMILEY’S ROOM - DAY – PRESENT I wanted to avoid repeating that in the action line considering the limitations in the page count, which a TV script has and used something I found in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy screenplay:
1-I have a TV pilot in which I switch back and forth between the past (middle ages) and present day.
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