You’ve laughed; you’ve cried; you’ve been aroused; you’ve been scared; you’ve felt regret, anger, frustration, near-miss anxiety and, ultimately, breathtaking triumph. Whew! What a movie!

Whether it’s a comedy or a drama, wringing out the emotions of the audience is the name of the game. Making it an emotional experience, using all the emotions, is what it’s about.

Like a good dream, we must live the movie; we must run in place along with the hero in our sleep, clutch our pillows at the love scene, and hide under the covers during the breathtaking climax of the film to wake exhausted but fulfilled, wrung out, worked out, and satisfied.

Where is your lust scene? Where is your frustration scene? Where is your scary scene? And if you don’t have these, take a scene that’s just funny or just dramatic and try to play it for one of the missing colors. A good way to do this is to actually choose a color of each of the missing emotions and go back and tag certain scenes to change the emotional tone from one type to another.