# According to Chapter XIII (1919), how should a writer plan scenes and locations around the stage limits: what to leave to the director, how to offer alternatives, and when to include an expensive effect?

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The authors give the writer five moves: use the picture eye to test whether a scene will register; leave the exact background to the director; write difficult scenes as a suggestion, ideally with two different ways to put the action over; ask whether an effect is worth while by weighing the scene against those before and after it; include the effect only when it is the big scene of a big story. Studio scheduling by set, rehearsal counts and timing are described as the director's side. These are the authors' advice plus their report of practice; no outcome data are given. (1919 US practice.)

The authors give the writer five moves: use the picture eye to test whether a scene will register; leave the exact background to the director; write difficult scenes as a suggestion, ideally with two different ways to put the action over; ask whether an effect is worth while by weighing the scene against those before and after it; include the effect only when it is the big scene of a big story. Studio scheduling by set, rehearsal counts and timing are described as the director's side. These are the authors' advice plus their report of practice; no outcome data are given. (1919 US practice.)

Curator qualifications: Planning rule: write hard scenes as suggestions with two alternatives.

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