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ActivitiesSearch ForumsAdministration |   Click the icon to see more of Saturday Night Live's best commercial parodies. Below is a compilation of several of the commercial parodies created by MTS Video Arts students in the 2008-09 school year. | Skip Random Glossary EntryAction (in a screenplay)• The action is just what it sounds like; it describes all the action in the film. Action can only describe something that the camera can take a picture of, hence a line like, “Judy wanted to be a teacher when she grew up” is not good action. There is no way the camera can capture this statement• Action is always in the present tense • Action always uses active language. “He is trying to run” is passive “He tries to run” is active • Verbs proceeded by the word is and ending with “ing” are generally passive |
