![]() An elaborate gun fight or car chase, for example, might be nine or 10 eighths. Easy, right? Well, yes, unless there are more than eight scenes per page. Then, one breaks each page into eighths, with one page equaling eight eighths. ![]() To break down a script for production, one must assign scene numbers and page counts. What I want to talk about here is fractions-that is, the divisions you have to make in a script to plan your shoot. A DP’s “only two minutes” to set a flag likely translates to no fewer than five, and a snarky “it’ll just take a sec” from makeup could actually warp Einstein’s theory of time and space. 4 Comments Math is generally reliable, but in the world of moviemaking, not so much.
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