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134 NUMBERING THE SCENES reasonable to suppose that ]\Iaud might have a framed photograph on the table. It is not miusual for men in love to be awkward. There is a reasonable explanation for the accident and we speed the action along. 21. If you will study the scenes you will see that these could not { possibly have been played as one. Each time the camera is stopped, therefore, a new scene commences. The camera is not stopped for the cut-ins because these are placed in position in the joining room. If a picture of the frame with the photograph had been shown, merely the frame and the photograph, or with a hand holding it, this would not have been made while the camera was stopped, for the director would have told his assistant to take the frame to the man who has charge of the leaders and inserts, but if the scene had required that Maud should try to take the frame from John and he had resisted then not only the hands but the dress would have shown, and to get just the proper position the director would have told the players to wait while the camera was brought down to them and the bust made. Since the camera was stopped while it was being brought down and again while it was being taken back, three scenes would have been the result, the two parts of what is shown as scene fifteen and the bust. 22. In writing the scene your chief aim is to make the scene plain to the director. Example D shows a page from a script written by a staff man for his director. Here slang and crudity are used to get ef- fects briefly. It is not offered as a model to be followed in other than the spacing, but it is interesting as showing the difference between working from the inside and the outside. The free lance would not offer a script with such careless phrasing. The staff man did not have to care so long as the idea of the story was amusing. 23. Only one of the examples in the Appendix shows the use of the word "Scene." The number is written in the left hand margin and "scene" is understood. You will save many hours in the course of the year by not writing the words. Some directors like the word scene and the Roman numeral in the centre of the page, but the Arabic numeral in the margin is the almost universal usage. f2.XXXII:2 XXXV :3 XXXVI :2) fS.V :6) CJ.XIVrP) ril. XXXIII :8) ('12.XXIV:26 XXXIII :5) (14.XXXIV:7 XXXV :9 XLVII:8) n7.XXVIII:15) (19.XLIV:12) (22.1:16 XXIV :25). CHAPTER XXXII NUMBERING THE SCENES SCENES are numbered merely that they may have some distin- guishing mark. The scene number is an identification and noth- ing more, but since it is an identification, it is essental that the identification should be properly done. It has been shown in the pre-