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368 APPENDIX Suit your own pleasure, but most autliors single space their action and use a line of white space between scenes and between parts of a scene and its insert. Some Editors prefer single and some double spaced synopses for short reels. The detailed synopsis should be double spaced. What is the precise difference between a bust and an insert? There is very little difference sometimes, but a bust is supposed to show some small action where an insert is without action. Is a bust a numbered scene? A bust should be numbered because it is a scene and not a part of a scene. Is an insert numbered? An insert is not numbered because it is not made by the taking camera but ,by a special department. Are two consecutive scenes in one set given one number? No. They are two scenes and must be broken by a leader or else by some other action, so they are not really consecutive. Is it necessary to send sketches of the stage settings? No. The director will lay out the scene. You should not write such definite action as to require a special form of set. Why is it forbidden to use two colors of ink? Because it is not necessary. In a stage play it is done to distin- guish the speeches from the stage directions. In photoplay your script is all business with no dialogue. To be logical you would underline it all in red. Since it is not necessary, its use is fussy and suggests the writer who wastes his time on small things instead of plot. How fully should I describe the action of the scene? ' Use no more words than will serve to give the director a general but clear idea of the action. Why must scenes be short? They must be short in action because action long continued in one scene .becomes tiresome. They should be written briefly that a mass of by-play may not obscure the essential action. How many words are permitted in a leader? As many as the screen wall hold, if you must use them to get the idea over; but you should be as brief as possible. As a rule it is a good plan not to go above ten or twelve words and to hold more closely to five or six. Should the time of day be stated in each scene? Scenes are supposed to be played in the daytime in the absence of any information to the contrary. You indicate only such as are not, as "night." "moonlight," "lamplight," etc., and then only when the action does not indicate the time. A ballroom scene, for example, would not be shown as a daytime affair. 75 it necessary to state the number of words in each leader and- then give the total number of words? This is advised in some books, but since it is seldom that the