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<view>


<view> describes the visual context of some part of a screen play in terms of what the spectator sees, generally independent of any dialogue.
Attributes Global attributes and those inherited from stageDirection
Example
<view>
   <name>Max</name> joins his daughter
at the window. <hi>Rain</hi> sprays his
face-- </view>
<view>
   <camera>Max's POV</camera> He sees occasional
windows open, and just across from his apartment
house, a <hi>man</hi> opens the front door of
a brownstone--</view>
Example
<div type="shot">
   <view>BBC World symbol</view>
   <sp who="mp">
      <speaker>Voice Over</speaker>
      <p>Monty Python's Flying Circus tonight comes to you live
  from the Grillomat Snack Bar, Paignton.</p>
   </sp>
</div>
<div type="shot">
   <view>Interior of a nasty snack bar. Customers around, preferably
  real people. Linkman sitting at one of the plastic tables.</view>
   <sp who="jc">
      <speaker>Linkman</speaker>
      <p>Hello to you live from the Grillomat Snack Bar.
  <!-- ... -->
</p>
   </sp>
</div>
Note

A view is a particular form of stage direction.

Module Declared in file teidram2; Base tag set for performance texts: enabled by TEI.drama
Class stageDirection
Data Description text and crystals
May contain #PCDATA ab abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app bibl biblFull biblStruct c caesura camera caption castList cb certainty cit cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct eTree emph expan fLib figure foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss graph handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp l label lang lb lg link linkGrp list listBibl m measure mentioned milestone move name note num oRef oVar orgName orig p pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr q quote ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled sound sp space span spanGrp stage supplied table tech term text time timeRange timeStruct timeline title tree unclear view w witDetail witList xptr xref
May occur within ab add admin argument body camera caption case castList cell colloc corr country damage def descrip dictScrap div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 docEdition emph entryFree epigraph epilogue etym figDesc foreign form gen gram gramGrp head hi hyph imprimatur item itype l lang lbl lem meeting metDecl mood note number orth otherForm p per performance pos prologue pron q quote rdg ref region rendition seg set sic sound stage stress subc supplied syll tagUsage tech title titlePart tns tr trans unclear usg view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref
Declaration
<!ELEMENT view %om.RO; %specialPara;> 
<!ATTLIST view  
      %a.global;>
See further 10.3.1 Technical Information; 10.3 Other Types of Performance Text

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