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The Story
CONTINUITY WRITERS
Continuity writers are the most skilled and most highly paid members of the screenwriting profession. Sometimes they are called scenario'writers, but this name is applied rather loosely to any individual engaged in any branch of screenwriting. Similarly, the term scenario is applied sometimes to the original story, sometimes to a synopsis or adaptation, and sometimes to the continuity itself.
Continuity writers are those "who draw pictures with words.'" They make what we call "the blueprint,, of the story. They take the original story, the synopsis or adaptation and change it into continuity. Frequently they first write what is called "a continuity synopsis.1' This differs from an ordinary synopsis in this respect — it contains more detailed action and it is written in "sequences." A simple illustration will make clear the meaning of the term, sequence.
Let us suppose that the story concerns a young girl, working in a department store. She is being courted by an undesirable character who, instead of being "poor but honest" is poor and dishonest. The girl meets the son of the owner of the department store, by flirting with him in a dance hall. They fall in love. The rich boy's father opposes the match because the girl is poor, thinking that all poor working girls are gold-diggers without virtue. The poor girl's father opposes the match because the boy is rich, thinking that all rich boys are gold-spenders, out to buy the virtue of girls. Complications ensue but, finally, after much footage, the boy and girl marry and every' body is happy.
The action of the first part of the story, which takes place in the
girl's home, may be called "the home sequence;" the action in the
dance hall, "the dance hall sequence;" etc. These sequences are
arranged in the order of time in which they are supposed to occur.
(If the reader recognizes the above illustration as the
synopsis of a certain recent picture, he or she is not to
conclude that this is a good example of what the studios
want for picture stories. It is "just one of those things.")
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