Somehow I am still have a problem between chapter and scene and I have always wanted to make this comparison and have someone tell me whether my thinking is right or not. In A New Hope would the time from when they begin the attack on the Death Star until the destruction be a scene and the cuts between character viewpoints be chapters?
Not seen any of the Star Wars films, but yes, it is usual to use chapter breaks for character POV changes.
No, I mean it for writing, I was just using the movie comparison since it's what came to mind the easiest.
I generally do more than one scene to a chapter in writing (movies don't really compare). Scenes cover one set of interactions so say in chapter one Bob has a row with his girlfreind (scene 1), goes to the local watering hole to drown his sorrows (scene 2), meets and picks up Sue, (scene 3) and goes back to her place for some funky monkey (scene 4 and 5)
Okay, so to take my misguided example and make it fit. We could way, chapter eight starts with X-wings taking off until the destruction of the Death Star, with the scenes jumping between the pilots calling out their call signs, Lea at the base and Han Solo's return (and many more inserted along the way).
I find comparing screenplays to fiction writing to very much be a case of comparing apples to oranges. That said for my writing the most logical place I break the chapter is for a POV change, location jump or time jump. Usually I will have 3-5 scenes within a single chapter.
I'm going to give you a link to the most helpful article I've found on this. What's a Scene? (And What's a Chapter?)
