Appreciate it! It's hard with topics as niche as ellipses and dashes in screenplays, but I'm doing my best to get the information out to anyone that needs it 🙂
Thank you so much mate! It’s so helpful to see all the options we have in a screenplay laid out so clearly. I love how you overlay the script with the visuals in real time. Appreciate your hard work ❤️
Your lessons are so clear and concise with their language, simplifying murkier abstract concepts into clear beats, you're teaching my thoughts to think in screenplay format, and I'm very much grateful!
Thanks for the video. This is the best one of have seen so far explaining dashes and ellipses. Do you have a video on beats? They seem to appear in dialogue, action and seems to mean different things depending how it is used? You could say from micro to macro in a script.
Beats can be super confusing because the term is used for a ton of different things. I actually ended up making a whole video on the most common uses: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AKgGXOcN660.html
It's definitely acceptable. It's probably not technically correct, but you see it used enough that no one is likely to get hung up on it. It has the potential to very briefly confuse the reader by making them think you are cutting off a line of dialogue when you aren't, but ellipses have that same issue because they can make the dialogue look like it trails off when it doesn't. You might even argue that the information between the pieces of dialogue is functioning as a parenthetical phrase, in which case a double dash would be appropriate.
