PLAY VS.

FILM
PLAY
is a work of drama, usually consisting mostly of dialogue between characters
and intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. ... The term
"play" can refer to both the written texts of playwrights and to their complete
theatrical performance.

FILM

also called movie, motion picture or moving picture, is a visual art-form used to

simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings,
beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are
generally accompanied by sound, and more rarely, other sensory stimulations.
Why do people say “Break a leg to actors before they perform on stage?

Understanding Drama and Theater Idioms and Expressions

Theater Idiom Meaning

Bring the house down

To give a successful performance which gets rousing
approval or enthusiastic response from the audience in
the form of prolonged applause, loud cheers of laughter

Keep the audience on the edge of their seats

To keep members of the audience interested and involved
in what is going on in the play and excited about what will
happen next
Hold the stage
To dominate a scene in the play

Steal the show To get the the most attention or praise from the the
audience for one’s performance
Send shivers down one’s spine
To cause an intense feeling or emotion in the audience
Apart from idioms, the following are some related terms and
expression used to describe the performers and others aspects
of the play

 Ham- means the performer overacts or perform badly.

 Twinkle toes- moves lightly and nimbly or dances very well on stage.
 Typecast- performers who associated with only a single type of
character or role.
 Walk-ons/extras- have no speaking parts in the play. They said to
walk on stage and off again.
 Showstopper- a scene or portion of the play that is received very well
and applauded by the audience.
What do you think makes up a story?
PLOT is the sequence of events that make
PLOT is the sequence of events that make
up
upaastory.
story.
 Emotion

Plotting a story is more than just mapping out specific steps a character takes
toward his goal within a conflict; it is structuring action and emotion to achieve an
intended effect. We want to make the audience feel a variety of emotions
throughout a story - tension, excitement, fear, frustration, joy - and not just at the
end. Action carries us along; emotion adds dimension, ups the stakes, increases
empathy or antipathy, and creates meaning.
Prose vs. Poetry
Vincent Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Don McLean Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue

Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you

But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night