Hi,
About to work on one of these and wondering, do you prefer the script to follow the meter on the right, the actual movements of the actress or a mix of both?
In previous videos I mostly followed the meter, but it sometimes feeels too detached from the movements of the actress, on the other hand, some people may like more the consistent up and down of the meter even if there’s no action in scene.
If the video has a beat bar it was intended to be followed by the viewer. There are plenty of videos that do not have beat bars, so I feel like it defeats the purpose, you may as well script a video that doesn’t have a beat bar. However, some videos have the stroke slow, fast, edge option. With those I feel a consistent stroke for slow and fast is acceptable, but for edging I think it should follow the action in the video unless nothing is happening, in which case, scriptwriter’s choice.
IMO the beat meter is there for a reason. Follow it. I’m not against having a second script for what’s happening in the video, but usually the videos will vaguely follow the beat meter as well.
If I scripted I cant even imagine scripting a video 3 times.
HOWEVER, I seem to think this would be a win for the community.
That being said…For those of you who like the script to follow the beat I am pretty sure there is a tool that is designed to create scripts based off of the beat.
If I can get an assist on what the name of the program was that would be great.
It’s this one (scroll down a bit to funscript generator):
I used it a few times and it was always a good starting point when scripting scenes with beats. Some strokes were missing here and there but it was fairly decent.