Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Elan Mastai's Notes on Getting Notes

  1. What if they’re right?
  2. What’s the problem behind the problem?
  3. Is there a short-term solution with long-term benefits?

  4. Everyone has a motivation. What’s theirs?
  5. Is it a disagreement about the script or miscommunication between me and them?
  6. Did I express this as clearly as possible?
  7. Don’t expect anyone to know the script as well as I do. That’s my job.
  8. Are they seeing the big picture? Take them through the falling dominos.

  9. What can change? What can’t?
  10. Am I standing up for myself or just being defensive?
"I found this scrawled in a notebook. A list I wrote of ten things to remember that I made while waiting to go into a notes session with some studio executives and my producer. Shared in case it helps anyone in some way..."

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