: Re: How to format quick flashes in a screenplay? Question : In my screenplay, the main character occasionally suffers quick flashes, like visions. I have been unable to assert if I am formatting

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I think you're correct in that there isn't necessarily a right or wrong way to do it, what matters is that someone reading it is able to follow it easily. The way I would perhaps treat them is to treat the visions as separate scenes with a parentheses indicating their status as visions as can be done for dream sequences. I'm not too fond of the 'back to scene' tag as I don't feel it really tells the reader anything. So for example I might try something like the below for what you have:

EXT. HOMESTEAD - DAY

Bob slowly averts his eyes toward the trees.

EXT. RANCH - AFTERNOON (VISION SEQ)

Hands bend a thick rope into a loop.

EXT. HOMESTEAD - DAY

Eyes down again....

Seems like it might be more flexible for moving scenes around.

If these visions are occurring a lot throughout the scene and form a continuous scene on their own then you could also use an intercut: introduce the scene headings at the beginning and then have a heading saying INTERCUT BETWEEN...etc.

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