week 6.

This week we continued to look intro breaking down a script. It is very important that a script is broken down enough, so that the director is familiar with the scene and how to instruct the actors.
A scene can be broken down into scene action and unit action.
Each scene will have its own story action (scene action). this is the psychological actions of the characters.
A scene can then be broken into unit actions. This is when the emotion of the character changes in the scene. Each time this happens the scene can be broken down into beats.

An example is...
Chris walks into the classroom, looks around then throws his pen down and leaves the room.
scene action: Chris is Fuming about the accusation.
fuming- the action word
Unit action:
unit 1. Chris is fuming about the accusation.
unit 2. He storms out to interrogate the accuser.

Although it can be difficult to separate a scene into a scene action and unit actions it can be very helpful during production to be able describe the emotion of the beat to the actors accurately.