What are your thoughts on using a montage to world build/establish what is happening/has happened. For example, I’m writing a horror feature around people vanishing. The opening focuses on one specific man. After we see his day and he vanishes it leads to the montage (which I envision happening during the credits but obviously that is up to the director). This is clips from a variety of news reports, interviews with the family, sherif press conferences, and even a morning show segment, to establish a 2 months timeframe, to show how as time goes on, people become less concerned and move on to other topics, and to also give background that his person is the 14th in a series of vanishings over the past year. Then we move on to the next person that vanishes, which is part of the “main” story.
THANK YOU! One of my screenplays opens with a series of photoshoots in the Northwoods. This helps with the format. 💖
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What are your thoughts on using a montage to world build/establish what is happening/has happened. For example, I’m writing a horror feature around people vanishing. The opening focuses on one specific man. After we see his day and he vanishes it leads to the montage (which I envision happening during the credits but obviously that is up to the director). This is clips from a variety of news reports, interviews with the family, sherif press conferences, and even a morning show segment, to establish a 2 months timeframe, to show how as time goes on, people become less concerned and move on to other topics, and to also give background that his person is the 14th in a series of vanishings over the past year. Then we move on to the next person that vanishes, which is part of the “main” story.
Sounds like you got it covered!