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STUDYING FACES AND CLOTHES
Whenever you are in any assemblage of people — in a church, or the theatre, or riding on a railroad train, or in a street car — note the faces upon your memory. Impress on your memory not only the faces, but the appearance of each individual— the sort of clothes he wears, and his manner of wearing them. So much of character is told in one's manner of wearing clothes. Note the individual's gloves and shoes, and his jewelry. Note the way in which the different women arrange their hair. Such practice will not only increase your power of visualization, but it will help in your study of character.
Place these people in some other environment. Picture the different kinds of homes to which they may be going. Picture the ones who will meet them there, and the bits of drama that may be enacted. In such practice you are making your observation and your imagination work together. When you come to the process of creating, out of your imagination, a photodrama, you will use things which your observation has taught you, and which you have learned are true in life.
OBSERVATION AND IMAGINATION
Of course mere observation does not make one a successful photodramatist. It is imagination which transforms this observation into art. It is the creative spirit which lifts one into the highest art world — the world of Beauty. You will learn more about this later.
When you have learned to picture clearly you will be equipped with the foundation for creative work. Let the practice of visualization become a habit. Do not merely dream. Think! Keep alert. Never be aimless. Be definite. Banish all extraneous thoughts or intruding images, maintaining resolute control.
Marguerite Bertsch says, relative to this habit of visualization, "Try to recall, after having listened to some vivid narration, the identical words of the speaker. You will find, then, that you have not been listening to words, but rather that you have been following scenes that were so real as to have blotted out even the consciousness of your immediate surroundings."
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