LESSON XIX.
Emotion and Sympathy.
True emotion is one of the essentials of a successful Photoplay.
It stirs us into sorrow, pity, anger or contempt, also to laughter and happiness.
You must have enough real action in your story or plot to enable the characters to awaken the emotions of the audience. Much of course, depends upon the character when acting the part, but you are obliged to furnish a good basis to work on.
Sympathy is a big asset. It reveals itself by stirring our emotions and works heart-interest into the story.
Bring out the sympathy in the most effective way possible.
There is some sympathy in a scene showing a little boy and his aged mother living in one small, unventilated room. When you show, however, that the small boy is the only support for the aged mother, that they are absolutely destitute, without food, and the mother sick in bed, then you create sympathy. When action is coupled with your plot and sympathy, you will as a result, get real action.