Cant figure this out

[ScriptNurse]

You don't have to do it this way ... it's just an alternative.

[ivan]

Thanks, I did not think of that. Now I have to come up with a newer more creative way to show picture including his blidness in some scenes...

[ScriptNurse]

Consistency is very important so as to not lose the reader.

INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY - TOM'S POV

This only works if the ENTIRE SCENE is black and the dialogue is heard. I should caution you ... movies are about visual movement and too much of a black screen with dialogue is called radio.

In the classic WAIT UNTIL DARK, Audrey Hepburn is blind and virtually all of her scenes are in subdued lighting or shadow, allowing the audience to have the movement they've come to expect from the movies but gaining very little information until the filmmaker reveals it.

[ivan]

Thanks.

in this script act 1 is regular 3rd person view, act 2 is a fourth 3rd person view and the rest is 1st person act three as well is 1st person accept for 1 scene. So can

INT. LIVING ROOM DAY TOMS POV

be used? Or is this what you meant?

[ScriptNurse]

I think the easy way to do this would be to indicate in some fashion that the blind character's (say Tom) POV is black screen with dialogue, so whenever the reader sees ...

TOM'S POV

... blah, blah, blah ...

BACK TO SCENE

... they automatically know what's happening.

I would not show this as a separate scene, but as a POV inserted into a standard scene with its slugline or scene heading. It's important to keep the continuity of the actual location because all of the actors will need to be there ... it's a practical matter of budgeting and scheduling.

[ivan]

I started a short yesterday about a guy who goes blind. In the script I want to make some scenes seen through him. So black screen with voices and sounds heard. How in the world can I get something like this across in my writing? Would this be "MC First person view" or something?

Anyway any help would be appreciated.

Ivan