BUILDING PLANTING OF INFORMATION AND PAYOFFS TO BREAK THE DOMINANCE OF THE AUDIENCE IN GUESSING THE STORY LINE

Abstract

Films have several stages in the production process. The main and most basic stage is pre-production, which is the initial concept of forming a film. In pre-production, the most important process is the search for story ideas which will then be written into a scenario. A scenario is a series of sequences of scenes, circumstances, places, and dialogues. In a series of scenes, conditions, places, dialogues, and other elements of the film, something that is quite important to pay attention to a planting of information, namely planting information that is implanted in the course of the story and the payoff that must be paid from planting that information. Embedding information can be given in the form of objects, places, dialogues, actors, songs, and other film elements. In the development of the story, there is a three-act structure, opening, middle, and ending. The opening section is a very appropriate part to embed information and pay-off the information in the ending section so that the audience will not feel cheated by any information that we have previously implanted. In this research, I want to apply the planting of information and pay-off techniques to the fictional film scenario "Panggilan" to break the domination of the audience in guessing the storyline.