Movie Making Manual/Scene Breakdown

A Scene Breakdown Page may be useful information if your play is structured in a series of formal Scenes in changing locations and time periods. It's also a good way to make a complicated Time Structure clear to a reader. But if you have fewer than 6 Scenes, it works as well to list them under each Act on the Setting & Time Page. And it's a clear way to indicate what kind of demands you're really putting on the Scene and Lighting Designers. If what you're doing with design is out of the ordinary, it's also a good idea to add a brief statement about this to your description on the Setting & Time page.

Here's one way of doing it. .

SCENES

ACT I	Scene 1		A Lecture Hall		Now

Scene 2		The Forest		1635

Scene 3		Nate's Place		Now

Scene 4		The Town Square		1635

Scene 5		The Forest		1635

Scene 6		Hester's House		Now

Scene 7		Nate's Yard		Now

Scene 8		A Field			1635

ACT II

Scene 1		Nate's Office		Now

Scene 2		Hester's House		Now

Scene 3		The Town Square		1635

Scene 4		The Forrest		1635

Scene 5		A State Park		Now

Scene 6		Hester's House		Now