Still, it could be a calculated risk in terms of earning the reader's skepticism off the bat. I can see it tripping a reader's mental red flag because it's a pretty conspicuous deviation, but it's relatively minor compared to not including page numbers, having the wrong font, the wrong spacing, having more than four lines in an action paragraph and giving camera direction. If that's the only formatting liberty you're taking, it's probably not too bad. I suppose a part of that could be that I'm so used to the regular way that anything else "looks wrong." I can't really speak to how other readers might perceive it because this has never really come up in any conversations I've had when I've shared pet peeves with colleagues. It's pretty far down on my list of pet peeves, but I've found them distracting in the few scripts I've read. the thing just looks and reads better, in my view.įor me, bolded slugs are a little bit of an annoyance. I just wondered, what's your take? I"m not trying to cheat, my scripts all fall into the respectable parameters. and I've never heard anything else from anyone, and have also seen a few bolded slugs scripts from other writers. And the producers who've picked up my work have never complained about it (and they've certainly given me a shitload of notes about other things, so if they didn't like it, they would). I do that and I really dig how it looks and reads, myself. if the slug is bolded, there's no need for a double space, the bold lets the eye know it's a change in scene. the idea is that two spaces is generally there to let the reader know the following is a slug. The thing is, when I bold my slugs, then I only use one space before the slug, not two. I got turned onto by another writer and really like it. I bold my slugs, it's something I've been doing since I went pro about a two years ago.
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