How can scene transitions do more than just move from one location to another?

Stu and Chas look at one of the basic building blocks of a script: scene transitions. Transitions don't just move you from one scene to another in a slick way, they can help you compress time, enhance thematic connections, unify different story threads, orient (or disorient) your reader... and just make your script feel more like a movie.

To help us see how scenes connect & collide in interesting ways, we take a close look at scripts of films with great transitions to see how much of the work was done by the writer (as opposed to the director or editor): SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD, HIGHLANDER, AMERICAN SPLENDOR and BOYHOOD.

And then, in backmatter we take a self-reflective look at TIME MANAGEMENT (and naps).

Oh, we are also holding a LIVE EPISODE of Draft Zero at the 2015 St Kilda Film Festival. May 25, 8pm. More details shortly!

EPISODE LINKS

• David Bordwell: http://www.davidbordwell.net
  • The Hook: Scene Transitions in Classical Cinema
  • There Will Be Blood - Hands and Faces Across the Table
  • Watching You Watch There Will Be Blood
  • Vimeo: There Will Be Blood with gaze locations of 11 viewers
• Scriptnotes: Ep89 - Writing effective transitions
• The Writer's Binder: 8 Ways to Hook The Reader by Karl Iglesias
• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke
  • YouTube: 2001 -From Bone to Satellite (1968) HD
• SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD by Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall
  • YouTube: Scott Pilgrim Transitions
  • Every Frame a Painting: Edgar Wright - How to do Visual Comedy
• HIGHLANDER Screenplay by Peter Bellwood & Larry Ferguson and Gregory Widen, Story by Gregory Widen
  • YouTube: Highlander (1986) - Trailer
• AMERICAN SPLENDOR by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman
  • YouTube: American Splendor - What's In A Name
  • YouTube: American Splendor - Supermark
• BOYHOOD by RICHARD LINKLATER
  • Kevin B. Lee : Who Deserves the 2015 Oscar for Best Director?
• Zak Forsman: Are You Thinking About Your Transitions?
• Screenwriting.io: What is a pre-lap?

BACKMATTER LINKS

• The Next Web: The Secret To Insane Productivity? Will Power
• Go Into the Story: Twitter Rant: Eric Heisserer on Procrastination, Precrastination and Productivity in Writing
• The Write Practice: 23 Essential Quotes from Ernest Hemingway About Writing
• Brain Pickings: The Daily Routines of Great Writers
• The Guardian: Rise and shine: the daily routines of history's most creative minds
• Paul Graham: How To Do What You Love
• Fast Company: How To Be Prolific: Guidelines for Getting it Done by Joss Whedon
  • Have Desert First - Joss Whedon
• iView: Redesign my Brain with Todd Sampson
• YouTube: Redesign my Brain - Series Trailer
• Denvog: Index Card for iPhone and Index Card for iPad
• Short of the Week: Deeper than Yesterday
• Pozible: Real Lust, Inc
• Phil Lemon: One Little Goat
• St Kilda Film Festival - Forums Throughout the Week

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