Day 4: What I learned

[Susan Willard]

Week 3 Day 4 – Visual Reveals – Breaking Bad

The first minutes of BREAKING BAD

What I learned rewriting my scene

· I was not using visual reveals, like pictorial action, or physical reveals efficiently.

· Visual reveals are great ways of communicating lots of information in segments and creative ways.

· Time, understanding, story line direction, and elongated suspense can enhance visual reveals.

· I am still experimenting with visual reveals in my scenes.

[Rice Rice]

What I learned rewriting my scene is what features are needed to make the scene all visual with the key being showing the character or characters engaged in action in a situation that needed no dialogue for the viewer to understand what is happening and why. In my rewritten scene, I noticed that I had given the main characters unnecessary dialogue because I thought previously that it was better to have characters speak in all of the scenes.

[Courtney Hill]

I feel like I always say the same thing, but I learned how much dialogue may not always be needed. He said of all of three things in that scene. We saw the very visual action of his desperateness by driving away in the RV van in his underwear, him getting the gun, and recording his information. So much happened in two minutes.

[Zev Ledman]

Good action and unusual visuals can drive your story forward while making the scene more interesting and entertaining for the audience.