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The question is asked: ‘Why are American shows so slick?
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Lawrence Marks, who has worked in the US, says that typically a team of eight writers will work for eight weeks on one script , compose endless re-drafts, and then to top it off a guy was paid $100,000 to make the script ‘75% more funny’- in other words his sole job was to pepper a script with gags.
Julian Friedman mentions that the burn out rate on US shows (not to mention ulcers) is enormous. Lawrence adds that when he wrote at a studio called ‘The Writers Block’, they employed a studio psychotherapist to address this situation. Lawrence told her: ‘I don’t need a psychotherapist, I come from England’. Six weeks later, he was seeing her twice a week.
Taken from a discussion at a TV writing conference.
Lawrence Marks, who has worked in the US, says that typically a team of eight writers will work for eight weeks on one script , compose endless re-drafts, and then to top it off a guy was paid $100,000 to make the script ‘75% more funny’- in other words his sole job was to pepper a script with gags.
Julian Friedman mentions that the burn out rate on US shows (not to mention ulcers) is enormous. Lawrence adds that when he wrote at a studio called ‘The Writers Block’, they employed a studio psychotherapist to address this situation. Lawrence told her: ‘I don’t need a psychotherapist, I come from England’. Six weeks later, he was seeing her twice a week.
Taken from a discussion at a TV writing conference.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
incontention.com
Wow, cool. I just discovered this site the other day and watched this. Very cool site. Has a lot of great behind the scenes stuff. I recommend the Avatar one.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Storyteller
We are all storytellers. You can tell me a story when I am sitting across the table from you or to me and others in a theatre. You can tell it by writing me a letter or a whole novel. You can tell it to me on the radio, on tv, in the cinema, on dvd, on the interent, through social media ortexting.
You can read hundreds of books about storytelling and watch great storytellers but for all of us it comes down to a memory of when we were six and we saw something fantastic. Then we rushed home full of the expereience to tell a parent or our best mate and we knew that we had to tell the story well, get them and keep them interested. Why, because like all the best storytellers we wantedmore than anything else for them to share our excitement
You can read hundreds of books about storytelling and watch great storytellers but for all of us it comes down to a memory of when we were six and we saw something fantastic. Then we rushed home full of the expereience to tell a parent or our best mate and we knew that we had to tell the story well, get them and keep them interested. Why, because like all the best storytellers we wantedmore than anything else for them to share our excitement
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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