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CHAPTER II
VISUALIZATION
We are studying photodrama,. We must, therefore, learn to put our dramatic action into picture form. This would be easier had we been differently educated. The majority of people go through life and lose most of the things of greatest value it offers because they do not know how to see them. Our schools are beginning to give definite training in visualization, trying definitely to develop the inner vision. The men and women who have been so trained will write the photodrama of the future, and they will give to the world great art forms.
DEVELOPING CREATIVE POWER
The Palmer institution endeavors to train its students along the lines of this new method — not to fill them with an accumulation of facts, but to develop in each his own creative power. One accomplishes, not because of what he has been taught, but because of what he himself can do.
John Burroughs, in one of his books, advised the cultivation of eyes, many eyes — eyes of the mind, of the heart, and the soul. That is what the photodramatist must do — cultivate eyes. Particularly must he become eye-minded. In studying a foreign language one feels that he has acquired fluency of speech when he has learned to think in that language. So one has accomplished something in the writing of photodrama when he has learned to think in pictures. For he must remember always that in his art he is appealing to the eye, as the musical composer must remember that he is appealing to the ear. Pictorial appeal is the photodramatist's language, as words are the language of the writer.
THINKING IN PICTURES
In learning how to think in pictures, it is well first to test your powers of observation. Close your eyes and try to recall
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