scenarise

scenarise (third-person singular simple present scenarises, present participle scenarising, simple past and past participle scenarised)

1. (film, theater) To create the physical set and staging for a film or play.
   • 1922, Motion Picture Studio - Volume 1, Issues 31-52, page 21:

     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.

   • 1976, DeWitt Bodeen, From Hollywood: The Careers of 15 Great American Stars, page 212:

     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.

   • 1997, Film History - Volume 9, page 105:

     In 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.'

2. To generate a scenario to illustrate an idea.
   • 2008, García-Peñalvo & Francisco José, Advances in E-Learning: Experiences and Methodologies, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2016, Paul Weismann, European Agencies and Risk Governance in EU Financial Market Law, →ISBN:

     The 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.

   • 2018, Glen O. Gabbard, Psychoanalysis and Film, →ISBN:

     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

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