What Are the Key Screenplay Transitions? An ESSENTIAL Guide
A blank page. A blinking cursor. Text: right-aligned. Font: courier new. FADE IN: Every movie, and therefore every screenplay, has transitions. Every change in time is a transition; every scene change is a transition; every change in location is a transition. Good use of transitions makes a screenplay easier to read and conveys a stronger vision overall. Bad use of transitions can make the screenplay illegible and difficult to see what the story will actually look like on screen. But