Meanings
present singular third person scenarises · participle present scenarising · participle past scenarised · past scenarised
- broadcastingTo create the physical set and staging for a film or play.
On the basis of an exceptionally interesting story, skilfully scenarised by Eliot Stannard, Frank Crane has built a photo-play in which humour, tragedy, and romance blend exquisitely.
1922, Motion Picture Studio - Volume 1, Issues 31-52, page 212 more examples
Directed by Joseph de Grasse from a Harvey Gates story scenarised by Ida May Park (Mrs. de Grasse), Hell Morgan's Girl presented Chaney in the role of Sleter Noble, a tough but sexy politician gang leader of San Francisco's Barbary Coast.
1976, DeWitt Bodeen, From Hollywood: The Careers of 15 Great American Stars, page 212In fact, Spencer Williams was maligned by the studios, forcing the Pittsburgh Courier to express it's disapproval of such practices by stating, 'Spencer Williams is said to have lost a golden opportunity at Christie Studios by kicking too soon for screen credit for pictures he claims to have helped scenarise. He is said to have forgotten that we have to abide our time.'
1997, Film History - Volume 9, page 105 - To generate a scenario to illustrate an idea.
The two film clips just shown indicate that desire, as it is scenarised in The English Patient is depicted to have both oedipal and pre-oedipal roots, both of which infuse the film's narrative mechanisms
2018, Glen O. Gabbard, Psychoanalysis and Film, →ISBN2 more examples
This fundamental truth should be scenarised in our case studies: instead of training students in the illusion of rigorous planning based on data, one should train them to work with uncertainty and breakdowns.
2008, García-Peñalvo & Francisco José, Advances in E-Learning: Experiences and Methodologies, →ISBNThe picture of the Commission as a 'blind driver' and the agency as 'directions-giving passenger', which has been created in the context of the relationship Commission-EFSA, may be excessive with regard to RTS, but it scenarises well that the RTS are de facto made by the ESAs.
2016, Paul Weismann, European Agencies and Risk Governance in EU Financial Market Law, →ISBN
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