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That approach is clear, the only thing I don’t like about it is the use of the transition CUT TO which feels rather ‘scripty’ when the trend in the last decade or so has been away from that type of screenplay jargon. VERIKA What is wrong with you women? You are like walking death! (extends hand) That will be twenty dollars. CUT TO: Verika now getting flustered by her cards, sighs at REBECCA. VERIKA I see a social disease in your future. VERIKA Is your homeowners insurance paid up? CUT TO: Verika works her magic with SHELLY.

CUT TO: Verika studies the cards for ANITA. VERIKA A tall dark stranger? You are not going to meet him. Here is one way to handle it: Verika the Tarot Card Reader flips cards, then casts a knowing eye toward her client BARB. My guess is you would find a different approach to formatting jump cuts in every script you read. Again the use of QUICK CUTS, then “Buzzer” to indicate the jump cut: GIRL Do you like oral sex? ANDY By oral do you mean.phone sex. *We see tears of pain coming down Andy’s face. *She strips off several more hunks of hair from his back and chest. 32: Andy gets a hot wax treatment indicated with the secondary slugline QUICK CUTS and an asterisk for each shot:
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19: Andy in his apartment channel surfing TV, a series of salacious commercials indicated in a list with a hyphen: For example, there are several jump cuts or quick cuts in the script for 40 Year-Old Virgin and each one is different: Simple formatting question: I have an overall scene where four women family members are individually and privately having their fortunes read by a fortune teller using Tarot cards.īasically it’s broken down into 4 sequential sub-scenes, that are supposed to look the same, except that one of the women is replaced by the next.ĭo I use a simple cut to: transition and a slug line, or should I use a match cut to: to indicate that these 4 sub-scenes happen in the same room?įirst of,f a definition: A jump cut is a transition to suggest a time ellipsis, a jump in time, hence the term.ĭespite what some screenplay format formalists may assert, there is no etched-in-stone approach.
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