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128 WRITING THE SCENE A better plan is to make a test of the scene plot on rough paper. Now check it off by reading the scenes from the action and have someone else check the scene plot. 27. As a matter of fact directors change the scenes about so often that it does not always pay the novice to make out a scene plot since there is so little probability that it will be followed. Many hold that the scene plot is never necessary save when done by some studio wri- ter, but it is a good plan to go to this extra trouble, even when you know that the scene plot will not be used. 28. An excess of scenes will operate against the acceptance of a story, but so will a lack of them. Some photoplay criticism is ele- mentary in the extreme, and a manufacturer may be accused by the public of being too economical if he presents a play in a couple of sets and a few exteriors, no matter how well produced the play may be. There can be no rule given, for each story will present its own problems. In general a play should be varied, showing both interior and exterior scenes not alternately, but, if possible, not holding too long to a run of either interior or exterior action. On the other hand some field companies may require scripts all exterior and some studio com- panies in the north all interior or mostly interior sets in the winter time. There are comparatively few companies requiring the latter. If you are free lancing and wish to write one or the other, it will be better to write all exteriors, but in these days when most companies go south for the winter, having established studios, it is best to write mixed stories and not seek to supply some special winter demand. (3.111:6 & 12 V:4) (6.XVII :3) (7.XLVIII :27) (9.LX:16) (10.111:8 IV :1) (ll.XVII:14 XXIV :3n (15.XXXV:4 XXXIX: 16) n7.XLVIII:2=;-) (20.XXXII :S) (21.LVI:16) (22.XL:15) (24.111:10) (25.XXXV:12 XXXVIII :7). CHAPTER XXXI WRITINCx THE SCENE ACCORDING to the strictest dramatic usage a scene, in an acting sense, is a passage between two or more persons; or even a monologue, that is not broken by the arrival of new characters or the departure of those already on. Certain editions of Shakspeare will offer a score of scene numbers to one division, the scene changing with every entrance or exit. A more practical and more generally ac- cepted definition is that a scene is all that part of an act played in one set at one time. 2. It would appear to be a simple enough matter to lay down the elemental rule that a photoplay scene is all the action that takes at one time and in one place and without stoppage of the camera. That