We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
Scenario 435
Later The Lost Squadron Scenario, continuing the same incident, reads
Scene 46. Exterior. Santa Monica Day. Medium Close Shot.
Gibson in the 'plane. The 'plane diving towards the sea.
Scene 47. Exterior. Santa Monica Day. Medium Long Shot.
The 'plane crashes into the sea
Scene 48. Exterior. Santa Monica Day. A Car. Medium Long Shot.
The Pest (Dorothy Jordan) in the car as she sees the 'plane crash into the water, and reacts horrified.
scene 49. Exterior. Santa Monica Ocean Day. Medium Long Shot.
A speed boat rushing to the rescue, the camera pans right with it as it skims along the water. Sound : Boat's syren.
Scene 50. Exterior. Santa Monica Ocean Day. Medium Shot.
Gibson crawls from the wrecked 'plane.
Thus, in the scenario, there is quick movement and the necessary breakingup of the scenes to get the story over. The various terms, such as medium long shot, are used to denote the distance from the camera. When a camera follows a moving object by swivelling sideways or up or down, it is called Panning. When the camera itself moves, it is known as Trucking or Tracking.
An example of the Fade Out or the end of a Sequence is given in the scenario of Mala Hari, M.G.M.'s Greta Garbo — Ramon Navarro film. [t reads :,
Shot 44. Sequence H. Interior Court Day. Medium Close Shot.
]\Iata Hari (Greta Garbo) seated in the
prisoner's dock. Caron beside her, in
the dock below. The Prosecuting
Attorney's voice heard off screen. Prosecuting Attorney (off) :
And you shot him in an attempt to save yourself. But it has not saved
Mata Hari listens calmly to these words, you, Mata Hari 1 You stand proven
but she hears their meaning as we an enemy of France !
FADE OUT.
Thus the episode is brought to a close when the High Spot has been reached.
Most scenarios are written with the action and directions on the left, and the dialogue and the sound effects on the right, although another method is to place the dialogue in the centre of the page. Sound effects are usually written in when there is a special meaning or significance for their being there. The ordinary sound effects are taken for granted th€*se da3's. This point is instanced in the excerpt from The Lost Squadron above.
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