ABSTRACT
The authors look at ways of joining scene to scene as the authors proceed further on our journey to producing a complete programme or film. A change of scene will offer us the widest range of possibilities as to the timing of such a join, much more so than anything the authors have looked at so far. Thus, highly charged moments that end a scene can be made to hang in the air before the bubble is burst by the arrival of the next scene. By far the best way to join scene to scene is a cut. For the most part, a scene is a self-contained time bubble. Any tightens the authors make to increase pace within a scene are microscopic compared with time jumps that occur between complete scenes. The eye is drawn to movement as the authors have discovered, so movement on a cut will help break the spell of the outgoing scene and introduce the new.
