The niggly things

[beccaelizabeth]

One thing that's bugging me with this scriptwriting thing:
INT DAY
Or INT NIGHT
On a spaceship.
Technically it's day on half the ship and night on the far side. Or it's day everywhere all the time. Or it's night everywhere. How do they know? It's a spaceship! They're in a corridor or a cargo hold and there's more corridor and cargo hold next to them. Day and night are just a bit irrelevant!

I'm typing INT DAY because it's easier. But I'd rather type INT GREAT BIG SPACESHIP.

Comments

[mcamason.livejournal.com]

The only problem I have with three shifts being self-contained social groups is that it makes it hard for the ship as a whole to be one self-contained social and political group.

To me, three-shift ships works fine for, say, generation ships and such, that are out of touch with the rest of humanity for long periods of time, but it still strikes me as weirdly divisive and risky behavior for humans to do such things.

Also? I'm a night owl who's always been happiest working when other people are asleep. no where for me to run for quiet in such a place! meep!

[beccaelizabeth]

True, about the social drift thing. And, also, potentially useful...

So true about the sleep escape thing.