suspense

              Mystery

1. Create suspense: (will they get killed, no they don't, etc.)
2. Dealing with suspense.
3. Difficulty is the fuel that lights our acting fires. When the characters have goals that are easy to attain, or if they give up trying, the audience loses interest in them. The greater the struggle, the more the excitement. The larger the risk, the greater the suspense.
4. Keep audience suspended: (will he or won't he).
5. Keep audience with suspense.
6. Keep rubber band stretched. What shape the scene should take. What is the suspense based on: (her breaking.) Play brings humanity against government.
7. Machine like. By choices: How is it possible? Doing it because it was written that way. End result must be creditability. Bring up doubts in character, will create more suspense. All possibilities for Mystery: What does she mean, a lot of unanswered questions.
8. Must have suspense.
9. Mystery can be more than suspense, here it is. Main essence of story. Where is the efficient? What is the story? What is the purpose of scene. What are the moments that progress scene? The story efficient. Lorn Dern; funny face, not a beauty, but sexy. Beauty comes within.
10. Mystery, definition: a normal view of people in dramatic situation, with an emphasize on suspense.
11. Mystery: not necessarily a puzzle to be solved. Based on suspense, main focus, scare the audience. Don't be gloomy or mysterious. Approach to work that it is witty, charming, macabre.
12. Mystery: suspense in the key.
13. Not here to find out the suspense, play it.
14. Pictures have meaning." Don't do the image that is normal, ruins suspense.
15. Prolong your movements: audience, will they, won't they.
16. Set up danger, you don't have suspense.
17. Suspense comes from the doing of it. Peter Lorrie involved people.
18. Suspense is: what is the catch?
19. Suspense of story is: (like a moth around the hot light until she falls in.)
20. What difficulties the character are under at moment. Create suspense you have to be in difficulties.
21. What shape the scene should take. What is the suspense based on: (her breaking.) Play brings humanity against government.
22. Why is the scene there: to keep audience in suspense. (Why do they become lovers?) How to use scene to show it.

"In the end, it can't look like acting."