Show W l t to View a Photoplay a aU w. w w. w rt U Expert Tells Scenario Contestants How Howo o a Diss Dissect ct Plays for Plot Structure Scenario Co Contest test C Conditions f i Telegram ram J. J Parker Read Jr scenario competition Is for three The first award is a cash sum of 2500 with end and 1000 respectively to be awarded to the second and third prize suitable for production in motion picture form In event of a ilof of th tying contestants shall receive the tho full amount of the prize eh they are tied contest is open to all may write your ideas in any form All scenarios will be consid consid- m the basic buic standpoint of quality of idea not idea not of form contest closes January 1 1921 judges whose whole names will be announced In The Telegram will 1 heir awards as soon after tho the conclusion of the contest as possible os must be sent Scenario Contest Editor The Tele- Tele alt Lake City and each contestant must muot enroll on the registration No information will bo be given over the telephone FILM FlUM EXPERT study life you naturally nd n SEE life now that you are arc writing to for the J. J Parker Read Head prize contest It is im- im w. w to SEE motion pictures h ere re Is a great difference bethem be- be them as a spectator tobe entertained and seeing 5 purposes of study hei he tatter Hatter method you should and nd work out IT FT APART Nutshell Tick Pick the picture to it scene by scene step stepp p asking yourself all the time tant questions What hat is the maker of this pic- pic Innis to make the audience particular moment How w is he carrying out his Ine In- In e that that is by what devices ego eso good or bad that devices faey e succeed or dont don't they And Andare Ands s are big questions Lets Let's be The villain is planning to kidnap kidnap the heroine The audience is excited with th the thought Will ho he succeed or fail fall STUDY METHODS Now watch carefully Just HOW lIOW docs does the playwright cause the villain vil vil- villain lal lain to lay his plans Just HOW now does he bring the heroine Into the tho necessary necessary sary s predicament Just J HOW does she come to defeat his bis purpose in the end Well the villain did l l this and that I. I and anC the other thin thing and the heroine did thus and so Now were those the best things th they could have done done done- the most effective Can you ou think up better ways that would have gotten gotten gotten got got- ten more attention more fear tear apprehension apprehension apprehension hension relief out of the hearts of the audience You cant can't do all an this thinking while watching the picture once there once there isn't time Before you can truly review and weigh the whole picture you have haye to memorize it Pick out a good picture preferably one of Louise since you are areto areto areto to write your scenario for her and see it four or five tive times Think about t tIt It HARD judge lIARD-judge Judge It HARD every HARD every ln in- in i stunt slant REVIEW PLAY Then-take Then a a. quiet b hour r to yourself SEE THAT WHOLE PICTURE IN INo o YOUR MIND and pick it to pieces Next see if you can mal make it better by changing the action here the here the order of events there there there-by by putting other characters in or taking some pf of the present ones Out out out-by by adding whole new episodes or omitting some of the original ones One good picture studied like this will forever change your view of of scenario writing It will put you into the very inside ot of the mind of the theman theman man who wrote that play It will show you how the play was built up in sections with story piled on top of story climax on climax thou though h on one main story leading to one ane main maln climax climax climax cli cli- max runs through it it all NUB OF DRAMA It will show you ou that a a. story a plot a drama at bottom shows show some dome interesting person up against some Interesting kind of trouble and andin andin andin in the end conquering that trouble in some somo interesting way That is the nub of ot all drama Unless you really understand that tha last sentence you will have difficulty in writing a good scena scenario one one io-one one that tha will wUl hang together Picking a picture to pieces will wUl help you more than al almost almost al- al most anything else |