Sure you can create a breakdown digitally if you use programs like Movie Magic Scheduling and Final Draft Tagger, or online services like StudioBinder.
I’m going to show you the traditional on paper way of breaking down a script.
It’s been around for over a hundred years and developed unique tools and systems that work and work well for our needs such as breaking down a script. That’s a lot of elements to manage and it all has to be collected and communicated in some way. It will also help you determine what those needs are going to cost you, your production budget.Īll of this is important because your lens sees outward in an ever-expanding cone and you want to control, to the best of your ability, everything in that cone, so that it helps in telling your story vs hindering it.Ī feature film, with 90 to 120 pages, could have 40 to 60 scenes or more. This breakdown will communicate to the various departments of your crew what they will need for each scene so they can make, manage and place them when the time comes. It's separating and numbering each scene in a script, and then highlighting and listing the elements in each scene as written.
#Final draft tagger change script how to#
Today we’re going to show you how to break down a script: the traditional way they’ve done it in Hollywood forever, how it's changed in the digital age and how to pare it down and modify it a bit for your shorter indie projects. How to Discover All the Elements Your Film or Video Needs
0 kommentar(er)
