Comments on: Cut the CUT TO: http://scriptwrecked.com/2009/12/09/cut-the-cut-to/ Making sure your screenplay doesn't leave you stranded Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:15:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Trevor Mayes http://scriptwrecked.com/2009/12/09/cut-the-cut-to/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Trevor Mayes Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:55:03 +0000 http://scriptwrecked.com/?p=1230#comment-182 Hey Kevin, thanks for the feedback. Glad you found the article to be helpful. Screenwriting is tricky business. There are all kinds of little arcane, almost insider secrets that you only discover as you go along. I'm hoping this blog will save writers all the time it took me to learn this stuff. Good for you for asking questions and taking the initiative. I would also recommend this article for one other questionable thing that Final Draft does by default: http://scriptwrecked.com/2009/12/12/discontinue-contd/ Hey Kevin, thanks for the feedback. Glad you found the article to be helpful. Screenwriting is tricky business. There are all kinds of little arcane, almost insider secrets that you only discover as you go along. I’m hoping this blog will save writers all the time it took me to learn this stuff. Good for you for asking questions and taking the initiative. I would also recommend this article for one other questionable thing that Final Draft does by default:

http://scriptwrecked.com/2009/12/12/discontinue-contd/

]]> By: Kevin http://scriptwrecked.com/2009/12/09/cut-the-cut-to/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Kevin Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:24:32 +0000 http://scriptwrecked.com/?p=1230#comment-181 I'm very new to all of this, so when I got Final Draft 8, it said it's the leading software for Hollywood script writing. So I'm writing my screenplay and it puts in CUT TO: in there all the time. I'm teaching myself how to do this, never had a teacher or school learning how to do this. So I have a friend that is in his second semester of film school and I show him a little of what I had finished. And what he told me is almost word for word what this topic says. And of course, after I go back through like 30 pages of it removing all the CUT TO:'s it does appear better. SO I do agree with this, even though I don't even know half the stuff I'm going to... Thanks I’m very new to all of this, so when I got Final Draft 8, it said it’s the leading software for Hollywood script writing. So I’m writing my screenplay and it puts in CUT TO: in there all the time. I’m teaching myself how to do this, never had a teacher or school learning how to do this. So I have a friend that is in his second semester of film school and I show him a little of what I had finished. And what he told me is almost word for word what this topic says. And of course, after I go back through like 30 pages of it removing all the CUT TO:’s it does appear better. SO I do agree with this, even though I don’t even know half the stuff I’m going to… Thanks

]]> By: This Week’s Updates: 12 December 2009 « Scriptwriting Library http://scriptwrecked.com/2009/12/09/cut-the-cut-to/comment-page-1/#comment-41 This Week’s Updates: 12 December 2009 « Scriptwriting Library Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:04:32 +0000 http://scriptwrecked.com/?p=1230#comment-41 [...] – The First Sequence by Doug Eboch/Let’s Schmooze Be Specific by Your Screenplay Sucks Cut the Cut To by Trevor Mayes/Scriptwrecked Edgy Screenwriting (2B): 13 Ways to Kill your Hero by Trevor [...]

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]]> By: Trevor Mayes http://scriptwrecked.com/2009/12/09/cut-the-cut-to/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Trevor Mayes Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:41:17 +0000 http://scriptwrecked.com/?p=1230#comment-39 Glad you agree Brian. Thanks for the feedback! Glad you agree Brian. Thanks for the feedback!

]]> By: Brian http://scriptwrecked.com/2009/12/09/cut-the-cut-to/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Brian Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:46:59 +0000 http://scriptwrecked.com/?p=1230#comment-38 I agree on the use of CUT TO: I'm not sure why people feel the need to superfluously use that one above all others, but I see it really really often in spec scripts. It's a camera direction, and just like all others, it A. shouldn't be used at all really, and B. is unnecessary given the fact that if you're cutting to a new location, then the location header should take care of that anyway. I agree on the use of CUT TO: I’m not sure why people feel the need to superfluously use that one above all others, but I see it really really often in spec scripts. It’s a camera direction, and just like all others, it A. shouldn’t be used at all really, and B. is unnecessary given the fact that if you’re cutting to a new location, then the location header should take care of that anyway.

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