. Accelerating scenes have the fastest pace and place the protagonist closer and closer to his goal. Characters are in the middle of intense action, conflict, or interaction toward obtaining goals, and we get a peak at them at the most interesting points.
. Decelerating scenes move characters further and further away from the goal. The character gives up, fails, or makes a compromise. Obstacles or conflict are greater than character.
Arcing scenes are when a character grows through a revelation or drastic behavior swing. These scenes reveal character arcs changing throughout the story.
. Circular scenes have a goal but no climax or payoff, and the character ends up back where she started. Used to show fate, cycles, or comedy. Pate meaning no matter what the character does, it just does not work out; tension and frustration build as the character looks for new ways to achieve the goals. Characters are chasing their own tails.
Flat scenes are missing an obstacle and have the slowest pace with no rise in excitement or drop, providing only exposition. These scenes explain information difficult to understand the pace with scenes like this to deliver lots of new ideas. These types of scenes deal with who, what, when, where, and how packed tightly together. How can you make one of your Hat scenes look accelerated? Flat scenes must contain information about plot (goal), theme (need), and character (personality).
Transitional scenes glue two scenes together and close gaps in time between events or places. If you have a character who is in Paris but says he must go to Peru, you do not cut to a shot of him suddenly sitting in some hut in Peru. You might show a map with a line going across the ocean or create a quick series of travel shots to show time, events, and places changing. Here is a list of possible transition scene techniques: