How to Write Photo-Plays (1915)

Record Details:

Title:
How to Write Photo-Plays
Date:
1915
Volume:
How to Write Photo-Plays
Leaf #:
000147
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Photoplay writing
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAYS 143 onlooker and holds it to the finish. The effects aid materially in holding the interest, we agree, and also furnish the "high spots" which will be remembered long after the main story has been forgotten. Often the effects are the main punches of a story, but they are useless alone, and must be worked into a logical plot at just the right time. Don't waste a splendid dramatic effect — or single bit of business action — by hastily dashing off a plot to fit it. Sit down and think out a wonderfully strong plot, and then spring your effect at just the right time, and you will have something which stands far better than an even chance of selling. SOME REAL TRUTHS. Though the article which follows, from one of the Pacific-coast newspapers, was written in a rather light vein, and greatly exaggerates certain conditions, it nevertheless contains some real, honest-to-goodness truths. You can read it through for yourself and see if you agree with the writer: "Scenario writing, the great international indoor sport of the world! "At last the Peepul have a whack at art; Parnassus has its Coney Island! the hoi polloi may buy drinks for the Muses. "Art, to change the figure, is tired of getting a crick in the neck looking up, has come down to dwell among us, donned a kimono, and let down her back hair. "Everybody, from preachers to pushcart men, from manual-labor musicians to ministers, from elevator boys