Scene endings? What defines the ending of a scene?

Question

I'm writing a script for a short film but there's a part that I don't know whether to keep it with Scene 4 or make it a separate scene although it's very short (I'm aware length of a scene can range from even just a second that's not my question) 
I currently have scene 4 fading to black and then Scene 5 just cutting to the clip however what I have so far as Scene 5 is the exact location of Scene 4, the only reason I have it fade to black is because the character in the scene goes to sleep and then in scene 5 she wakes up (it's the same day by the way just a few hours apart)

So my question: Should I make what is currently scene 5 just the ending to scene 4 since its short and in the same location the only exception is that the time is a few hours apart since she woke up from a nap or should I make it its own scene?

Something Blue · Accepted Answer

Simply create a new slugline for scene 5:

INT. LOCATION - LATER

^ This means it's the same location, but the time is different -  it's later. Of course, if it used to be day and now it's night, the time will simply be NIGHT instead of DAY in the new slugline.

Nothing to do with the length of the script or the scenes.

perfectlybaked · Answer

My guess is that it wraps up everything, and this can simply be done by the ending of the main character.

Of course, that is a "tragedy."

Scene endings? What defines the ending of a scene?

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