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What check can an agent run on a scene to decide whether it has dramatic action in Baker's 1919 sense, and how might it be adapted, as an untested proposal, to screen use?

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Two labelled parts. [1919 stage practice] A seven-step scene check derived from Chapter II: name the emotion target; list the carriers (bodily action, mental state, stillness, exposition); for each bodily beat find its route (by itself, characterizes, helps story); for each mental or still beat check that characterization and cues make the state readable; check attachment; check exposition stretches for emotion; check that the effect can be carried by the medium within its time. [Proposal for screen use, untested] Replace Baker's actors and words with performance, image and sound; output a per-beat table with quoted text, not a score; have a human set the emotion target because no source supplies a way to verify audience emotion. The numbering and the table are mine; Baker supplies no checklist.

Two labelled parts. [1919 stage practice] A seven-step scene check derived from Chapter II: name the emotion target; list the carriers (bodily action, mental state, stillness, exposition); for each bodily beat find its route (by itself, characterizes, helps story); for each mental or still beat check that characterization and cues make the state readable; check attachment; check exposition stretches for emotion; check that the effect can be carried by the medium within its time. [Proposal for screen use, untested] Replace Baker's actors and words with performance, image and sound; output a per-beat table with quoted text, not a score; have a human set the emotion target because no source supplies a way to verify audience emotion. The numbering and the table are mine; Baker supplies no checklist. Curator qualifications: Seven-step check labelled 1919 stage practice; screen/LLM adaptation and L10 experiment untested. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
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  • [inference] Two labelled parts. [1919 stage practice] A seven-step scene check derived from Chapter II: name the emotion target; list the carriers (bodily action, mental state, stillness, exposition); for each bodily beat find its route (by itself, characterizes, helps story); for each mental or still beat check that characterization and cues make the state readable; check attachment; check exposition stretches for emotion; check that the effect can be carried by the medium within its time. [Proposal for screen use, untested] Replace Baker's actors and words with performance, image and sound; output a per-beat table with quoted text, not a score; have a human set the emotion target because no source supplies a way to verify audience emotion. The numbering and the table are mine; Baker supplies no checklist. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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