Hello! We start our #BetterCallSaul ep 509 "Bad Choice Road" #CardToPage look w the split-screen Teaser.

The function of cards is to distill & focus on what's most important in a scene, although our Saul cards have expanded w more detail since using this method on The X-Files.

When we 1st started boarding 509, we left the Teaser blank, hoping the right opening would come to us. Looking at Jimmy's escape from the desert, we realized we were missing: what is Kim feeling about his disappearance? Which led us back to split-screen...

1st page of 509 "Bad Choice Road."

Not much dialogue in opening, so job is to not make descriptions of scenes so dense that it's unreadable, but to have enough detail so that all departments know what's needed for the scenes.

Page 2. No right-or-wrong rules. Different style preferences for different shows. If you want to write screen directions, a type of lens, an angle, whatever, to tell your story, then do it (unless you work for a showrunner who has a particular preference... then do it THEIR way!)

Pages 3 & 4. Pages average about 1 minute of screen time, but the split screen description was longer than what eventually appeared on screen.

For anyone who wants to read the #BetterCallSaul 509 "Bad Choice Road" Teaser in one run without the notes.