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l86 A PRACTICAL MANUAL OF SCREEN PLAYWRITING
Build for continuity. The repetitions were done purposely. For it is only with this smooth-flowing, moving quality that motion pictures can achieve stature, and it is because of a lack of it that they become abysmal failures.
This building of shots, scenes, and sequences is what contributes to make up the motion-picture shooting script. In Europe— and especially in Russia— this process of assemblage is called "montage."
The European conception of montage sees its techniques as being applied not to an individual sequence, as is done in Hollywood, but to the picture as a whole. It recognizes the fact that uninspired, orthodox film editing, as performed in most American pictures, is vacuously mechanical. It also believes that the application of true montage principles to film editing— and to screen-play writing, if much of the editing is suggested in the screen play by the writerrequires creative filmic imagination.
Therefore an attempt will be made here to apply the methods of European montage to the creation of a shooting screen play, so that a finished picture, closer to the original concepts of the screen-play writer, will result.
The European principles of montage are also applied in Hollywood, but under varying classifications, and with considerably varying results. The basic reason for the varying results is to be found in the different audiences. But the fact remains that European audiences attend and appreciate American films, while many European films— and especially in the past few years— have become quite popular with American audiences.
Organize for flow. In writing the shooting screen play, and to make use of all the components already discussed, it is necessary to organize the filmic material so that it flows smoothly and continuously and results in a picture that is unified, coherent, and entertaining.
Organize for scene length. It is necessary that this organization be done, not only from shot to shot, but from scene to scene and from sequence to sequence. In this organization, certain adjustments must be made to achieve maximum results. Attention must be paid to