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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Instruction Unit m SITUATION Definition of Situation Reference to Standard Photoplay Plot Chart Situation as the Foundation of Plot Situations?Contributory and Climactic Crisis and Climax Combining Situations to Produce a Dramatic Effed Building a Plot from Situation Solving the Problem A Test of Dramatic Ability Judging the Dramatic Strength of a Situation Anticlimax Anticlimax in Its Proper Place Situation as a Foundation for Comedy Comedy Situations in Drama Combining Situations to Avoid Monotony PRIMARY INSTRUCTION Copyright 1922, Fox Photoplay Institute, Chicago, 1II. Entered in Stationers Hall, London, Eng. cAU rights reterved chapter{Section 4SITUATION An analysis of any story, drama or photoplay will reveal a number Definition of of situations. ' M Situation is defined as relative position or combination of circum- stances or the temporary state or relation of affairs at a moment of action. Memorize, either one of these definitions. Knowing the exact meaning of a word gives you a j clearer understanding of its application. In a photoplay, we see a cook take a delicious looking cake from the oven and place it on the table. She leaves the room. This is not a situation. It is merely a series of actions. A small boy enters the room in the cook's absence and sees the cake on the table. He cuts off a generous slice of the cake and bites into it. He is busy eating the cake, his mouth full, crumbs on his blouse when the cook re-enters. This is a situation. Conflict is introduced. It is a combination of circumstances causing the question? What is going to happen now? to form in the reader's or spectator's mind. Two automobiles are coming down a road in opposite directions. This is merely a circumstance. ...

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