What is scene structure? (Order)

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It's the order in which you place things to make the scene more effective. 

Here's Hitchcock describing it in terms of cinematic tension: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPFsuc_M_3E

Partial Transcript:

Four people are sitting around a table...talking about baseball...whatever you like...

Five minutes of it...very dull...

Suddenly a bomb goes off...blows the people to smitherines...

What do the audience have? Ten seconds of shock.

Now...

Take the same scene and tell the audience there's a bomb under that table...

And will go off in five minutes...

Well the whole emotion of the audience is totally different...

Because you've given them that information...that in five minutes time that bomb will go off...

Now the conversation about baseball becomes very vital...

Because they're saying to you...don't be ridiculous...stop talking about baseball...there's a bomb under there...you've got the audience working...

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