Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-05
SCENARIO DEPARTMENT

the exterior OF scene "a, and the camera {
moved back and forth from fuu vtet1 I
"closesttp" and numbered with every chang,
The leader or subtitle There are th
| written words used 70 explain action DIFF
ncult OF impossible to show by mean
Of action alone They are also used 10 cove
| lapse OF time as, for example, the com
mon phrase, "the next day"
Technically speaking, these words arr
| neither leaders nor subtitles. The leade
| is the blank strip OF film used to thread UT
n reel on the projection machine. It come
| Just before the first title SO that the picture
may start in It's proper place. On the
| other hand, the word subtitle is incorrect
| because they are not subtitles
They have nothing in common with tht
main title. But usage has made these
words have meanings indvldualized and
apart from their original termnology. we
prefer the word leader. but IL the other
comes more naturally, use It. The reason
why we prefer leader to subtitle is that
when conversation Is pictured on the
screen and It ls necessary to convey the
meaning q the conversation we can use
the phrasb "otit-in-leader." for leader
which is to be cut into the middle OF a
scene and express II easily. We can say
cutfn-snbtitlc, but It is awkward, or we
can change the wording entirely and call
It n spoken insert. II you use the word
leader you use the same word prefaced by
cittin.
An insert. This is anything put Into n
scene that Is not actually part of the pho
toRraphic action. Under this head come
letters. telegrams etc. In n broader sense
leaders and ciltin.Ioudcrs are inserts, but
the word has more restricted meaning
and usually refers to letters. kilograms,
notes, newspaper clippings and the like
A DISSOLVE. This is the gradual intro
duction or fading away Of a character or
scene within n scene.
A viston., The Introduction OF another
scene into scene,
To differentiate, we will give an example.
Suppose Mary Is seated in chair as In
scene 90. before given. She is thinking of
John. who she knows Is many miles away.
He seems to appear before her--he Is dis.
solved in-but when she stretches Zip her
arms toward him he vanishes--he is dis
Soiued out.
Now suppose Mary, seated In the chair.
conjures up happy day spent In the coun-
try with John. In one corner Of the scene
will appear another scene of John and
Mary rowing on lake. The picture will
be smaller, but it will show us what Mary
Is thinking about,
This is a piston. The difference between
n dtssolpe and Vtsiot is that John becomes
part of the scene with Mary in the dtssolre,
It Is another scene altogether in
the vtsfon.
fade. This is the gradual dlssolving of
the end of a scene into the beginning of the
next. This is caused by closing and OPEN
Ing the diaphragm of the camera.
Suppose we wish to get over a passage
Of time. Perhaps Mary is tempted to rush
into the next room and expose her lover to
the police. She believes that he has been
untrue to her and is resolved to get even.
We fade out on her and fade in, indicating
1 passage of time while she wrestles with
her anger. When we fade in she has con-
luered her baser self.
We have not given all the technical terms |
Used, but we have given all that are neces-
,ary for a start. From time to time moro |
words and phrases will be introduced, but |
With the ones given here today we can |
low go forward with the development of |
he action in the next article of the series. |
(Tomorrow, Lesson 4-Aotion.)