In this post I divide my 'leave it all on the page' version of my story into three discreet scenes. Reformatting a story into scenes in this way is something the folks at StoryCenter recommend for digital storytellers, given that the output of a digital storytelling process is, at the end of the day, a film. Writing in scenes makes for a good next step in the direction of writing for film. Divvying up a story into scenes also makes good compositional sense in that doing so helps keep things organized and concise. This makes a story easier for an audience to follow, and kind of gently forces an author/director to be clear. The 'scenification' process also enables a more 'cinematic' mode of thinking to be enfolded into the process. Cinematic thinking involves blending all of the story elements (text, spoken text, image, sonic content, and moving images) together, in concert so to speak, within a series of coherent scenes that, taken together, add up in the end ...