Screenland (Nov 1945-Oct 1946)

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"Motion pictures are completely different from stage plays," she explains, "for you have to conceive pictures in terms of film. As an example: in our medium we don't have the limitations of the stage; such as small sets with the action taking place within their boundaries. In a stage play you can never get close to anyone's face and therefore don't have the advantage of closeups. On the stage, also, you must keep down movement as much as possible. Too many rights to lefts are distracting. Remembering all this, it's easy to see why people who don't understand cameras are never any good in turning out Hollywood products. Film has its own technique. In movies, the camera controls the whole emotional impact of the picture." Joan knows what she is talking about, for she was a screen writer herself before she became a producer. Under Hitchcock, she wrote — among others — the scripts of "Rebecca" and "Suspicion." She learned so completely the knack of visualizing as she wrote that sometimes it annoyed her when she couldn't get the feeling of what she wrote on the screen. For this reason she decided to become a producer. That way she could make sure that what she had in her mind would find its way to the screen. Her advance from screen writer to producer was as simple as that. Being a writer herself, she works very closely with the writers on her pictures. First, they work on the original draft. Although it's cut up into scenes, it isn't the polished, final manuscript. The last draft, the shooting script, is complete with all types of technical description. It has such terms as "Fade in," "Dissolve out." The dialogue is interspersed with directions, as: John (motioning to the left) : "The closet is over there." To a layman, many of these directions seem like Greek. Camera pans to Florae's head, the script may read. Or, again, John looks at Mary as the music wells up. 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