Hello!
I still have problems with "BEAT" anyone can help me!?
I have a lot of "BEAT" in a theatre play and I don´t know the best meaning.
I´m sending a couple of examples:

1.Man:are you gonna live me? Woman: Yes Man: Why? Woman: Sam. Beat. Man: Sam? He´s a kid.

2.Girl: I was in the middle of nowhere. Man: what were you doing in the middle of nowhere? Girl: travelling. Beat. Man: alone? Girl: with... a male. Beat.

I´m sure it can´t mean Silence or Pause because both are used in other parts of the play.

Any idea?

Thank you!

 

Hola!

According to Wikipedia: In theater, a beat can refer to a short pause inserted into an actor's delivery.

Hope it helps!

 

Gracias por tu respuesta y por tu info de wikipedia, no sabía que existía tal cosa.

 

Cuando en un guion de una pelicula, entre dos frases que alguien dice, ponen "(beat)" ¿alguien sabe que significa?
Gracias

 

El guión ese, ¿está en la pantalla o está escrito?

Si está en la pantalla puede ser una señal para los sordos que hay música o algun sonido entre las frases.

 

esta escrito...igual si que es que hay un sonido entre frases...pero ¿no especificarian entonces de que sonido se trata?...

 

Voy a consultar con alguien que sabe más que yo de esto [trabajé en producción de video por 10 años, pero no en guiones de películas]. Pero, leyendo, un guión, creo que se refiere a que la persona hace una pausa como en este ejemplo de Good Will Hunting:

CHUCKIE
All right Morgan, fine. I'll tell you
why we're not going to "Kelly's."
It's because the take-out bitch is a
fuckin' idiot. I'm sorry you like her
but she's dumb as a post and she has
never got our order right, never once.

MORGAN
She's not stupid.

WILL
She's sharp as a marble.

CHUCKIE
We're not goin'.
(beat)
I don't even like "Kelly's."

 

gracias borgonyon!

 

Borgonyon, ya que sabes del tema, te pregunto otra cosa si no te importa:Cuando ponen "cont'd" y "continuous" ¿qué significa?
Generalmente aparece al lado de la persona que habla / o de la escena
Por ejemplo,

JORGE
Te dije que dejaras
el grifo cerrado, mira
la que has armado!

El suelo está todo lleno de agua. Tardarán días en recogerlo.

JORGE - "CONT'D"
Si ya sabía yo que no
podía contar contigo...

O por ejemplo

EXT. DÍA - LOCAL DE MAURICE
bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla

EXT. DIA - LOCAL DE MAURICE - "CONTINUOUS"

¿¿¿Se te ocurre???

Gracias!!!

 

El primero "CONT'D" se refiere a que la misma persona continúa hablando mientras la pantalla presenta lo que aparece en el guión.

El segundo "CONTINUOUS" se refiere a que lo que aparece en la pantalla se sucede de continuo. No hay diálogo en el guión.

A continuous block of storytelling either set in a single location or following a particular character. The end of a scene is typically marked by a change in location, style, or time.
Sometimes, instead of DAY or NIGHT at the end of a SLUGLINE/Location Description, you'll see CONTINUOUS. Basically, continuous refers to action that moves from one location to another without any interruptions in time. For example, in an action movie, the hero may run from the airport terminal into a parking garage. The sequence may include cuts, but the audience would perceive the action as a continuous sequence of events from the terminal to the lobby to the street to the garage to the second floor to a car etc. CONTINUOUS is generally optional in writing and cn be dropped altogether.

El mismo caso de Good Will:

LAMBEAU
This is correct? Who did this?

Dead silence. Lambeau turns to an INDIAN STUDENT.

LAMBEAU (cont'd)
Nemesh?

Nemesh shakes his head in awe.

NEMESH
No way.

Lambeau erases the proof and starts putting up a new one.

LAMBEAU
Well, whoever You are, I'm sure you'll
find this one challenging enough to
merit coming forward with your identity.
That is, if you can do it.

INT. CHUCKIE'S CAR, DRIVING IN SOUTH BOSTON -- CONTINUOUS

The street is crowded as our boys drive down Broadway. They
move slowly through heavy traffic, windows down. Chuckie sorts
through a large "KELLY'S ROAST BEEF" BAG as he drives.

 

millones de gracias borgonyon, me quedó clarísimo!!!