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Kalaong
Since: Jan, 2001
Fazikku
Since: Jun, 2018
13th Jun, 2018 01:31:22 PM
Would need to be more specific.
i'll be gone when the drugs wear off.
Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
13th Jun, 2018 01:39:55 PM
Edited by Scorpion451
BreadBull
Since: Aug, 2015
crazysamaritan
MOD
Since: Apr, 2010
13th Jun, 2018 02:34:57 PM
Both characters are facing a Race Against the Clock situation. The switching between locations/perspectives is called Two Lines, No Waiting.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
KTera
Since: Oct, 2010
13th Jun, 2018 04:31:02 PM
Possibly Sequencing Deception if the two scenes do not occur simultaneously.
Person A, in their own location, is going to do something bad, or is about to get into serious danger if not even die. Person B, away from person A in their separate location, knows this and is hurrying to get to person A in time before the bad thing happens to them. The scene advances in a way that the screen frequently cuts between persons A and B, advancing towards their goals and the outcome can very well be either B reaching A in time before the bad thing happens, or in more dramatic cases, it is too late and A has been subdued/killed/etc, usually followed by screams of agony or anger from B.
Examples: The Dark Knight, when Batman is racing to Rachel's location before she gets blown up; Disney's Hercules, when Herc is flying on Pegasus towards Meg before her thread of life is cut; The Sleeping Beauty, when the fairy godmothers are trying to find Aurora before she touches the spindle. There's plenty of others, but you get the gist.
Edited by Fazikku