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posted 8 years ago by michaell-burris-243-954095
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Never ran into this before and thought I'd give this message board a try with a simple craft question.

I want to camera (shot) stream or better yet convey a "streaming jump shot" from one location to another maybe even in fast forward continuous motion only consisting of a couple blocks on action OFF a finger point from a narrator character who we also periodically see.

Would this be better as an action element or is it too risky putting it in as a transition called "streaming jump shot" with to and from locations or maybe just calling it a "streaming jump shot" giving locations to and from in the scene heading.

This might sound weird having a narrator on camera but this becomes important due to paralleling a mini story with the "Big Picture" story in different era's and the main story sparks from the eyes of the narrator due to simple happenstance and timing causing recollection. Yet the main story really has nothing to do with the narrator other than a second hand telling. That's why this jump shot is so important even though it actually occurs in same era. Where the jump shot ends is revisited a few times in different era's throughout the movie.

It's a based on true story spec. script for the Nicholls. Oddly or luckily enough it is not an adaptation though.

Enough Rambling.

Feedback would be appreciated from those who have ran across such craft questions or similar craft questions.

Michael L. Burris
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[–] michaell-burris-243-954095 8 years ago

I could simply do it in an action sequence this way but this is a VERY IMPORTANT camera shot to convey to audience, reader and hopeful eventual director.

OFF FINGER of narrator view travels from (Whatever point a) to (Whatever point b) in fast forward continuous motion.

There seems to be some weird hard and fast rules with spec'ing yet some ACTUAL industry readers say do what you need to.

I'm just trying to find the best way to convey this without coming off too amateurish.

Getting tired and need to look at things with fresh eyes tomorrow but answers to this question will help me evaluate usefulness of asking craft questions in a few different places and narrow my tool use, time consumption giving to different discussion boards.

Michael L. Burris
"Life is way too short not to look at the lighter side of it."

[–] thebigmouth 8 years ago

Personally, I would just describe it in action. For practical reasons more than anything else. You're far more likely to convey what it is you mean that way than with some technical jargon that may or may not be understood by your reader, even assuming it's correct.

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