Development – the patterning of similar and differing elements as well as the progression of said elements throughout the movie. Labeled with capital letters (ex. ABCACDADE)
- formal development can refer to the basic notion of beginning, middle, and end.
- forms ideas of genre as patterns are evident like a journey, a search, a pattern of mystery
- segmentation – a written outline of a movie broken into its major and minor parts marked with numbers and letters
- scenes – labeled with numbers
- actions in scene – labeled with small case letters