Efficiancy and Efficacy

Instead of four separate scenes, each with one goal and one major piece of information to impart, how about one scene that includes it all?

Instead of a setting with two people or four, between a child and a servant, why not a mob scene or a huge fight or the imperial family?

Scriptwriting while doing nanowrimo is a schizo experience.

In nanowrimo, 12,500 words is not enough to establish that two people love each other, and that another's death is a big deal. In scriptwriting, one page is always better than two, let alone five, let alone TEN.

More on this later--I don't understand why some mediums seem so much more efficient than others...or, maybe, it's that *I* am more efficient in some mediums than others...