ScriptTip - We open
April 29, 2008 – 9:02 am by Killer Screenplay GuyDon’t use “WE OPEN, anything like it.
“We open on a beautiful desert dune…”
“We follow the car through the tunnel…”
It’s too ornamental. Adds too many words.
FADE UP:
EXT. DESERT DUNES - DAY
The sun is rising. Larry and Jane are still walking.
That there tells us all we need to know. In the slug line and a little bit in the action text.
