Scene Construction
by Larry Brody
Scenes are more than a signposts on your way to the end of the screenplay road. They’re more than just moments in which story or character points are thrown out at the viewer or reader. A good scene in a screen or teleplay—and by good I mean EFFECTIVE in terms of getting the response you want—is a mini-story in itself, with a beginning, middle, and end.
In other words, scenes need to be structured so that the intensity within them grows and then climaxes, like microcosms of your script.
