He moved across the room and carefully picked up the bomb. And neither of these shot terms would be in the script to take away from the reading experience or confuse the readers. Now to your question. Each paragraph is NOT a shot. Every writer will do it a little differently.
Every writer has a unique style.
I think you can gain dramatic impact by putting sequences inside a paragraph, so that when you envision something dramatic and treat it separately, it will have some power to it. In addition to not wanting your screenplay to look like a list, you also don't want it to be so dense that it's intimidating to read. Back to top . In screenplays bigger is not better. If you get to 200 pages you'll be 80 pages too long and will have to go back and cut, cut, cut.