July 2017
Beginner
340 pages
11h 13m
English
There are film scenes that do not fit into the dramatic paradigm, nor are they dominated by physical action, yet in most films these are the scenes that comprise the majority of screen time and carry the burden of telling most of the story. I have labeled them narrative scenes. They supply exposition, circumstance, character delineation, relationships (both static and dramatic)—in short, most, and in some cases, all, of the information that is crucial to a story. Some of these scenes might contain conflict and some might contain overt action, while others might contain a good deal of suspense.
If narrative scenes make up most of a film, why wait until now to introduce them? It is because their structures ...
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