The craft of writing
for games, TV and movies,
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Thursday, July 22, 2004
TV DIRECTORS
As a story editor, you sometimes have to guard your scripts against directors. The problem is that directors are responsible for making their episodes cool. But they are not responsible for the overall season making sense. Sometimes the cool thing for the episode is not the cool thing for the season. For example, you may need to give a good scene to a weak actor because the weak actor is the character that makes sense. The director will want you to rewrite the scene for another character. Hopefully everyone listens to each other and the best idea wins. ("The best idea wins" is a culture the best showrunners instil in everyone. It's how this show works but it's not true when the culture becomes "cover your ass" or "pass the buck.")
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