Have your world and chars got enough about them to generate 52 episodes for a first season?
YOU MUST LOVE YOUR CHARACTERS -if you don't love them why should anybody else. Make them flawed! World - family home, other worlds, specific towns, char specific locations. The weirder the world the straighter the storytelling. Universally recognised stuff. 3 act structured character driven.
- coherent with the rules of the world
- don't blindly pursue the gag - follow character and story.
Quick pace. dialogue performs char, story + comedy functions at the same time. Pace eats up a lot of story. Smash cuts techniques (family guy)
- no guns, knives, punching in face, no adult cynicysm.
- make sure style doesn't impose itself too much on character and story - squash + stretch etc used w/o distracting for Simpsons.
Dif culture = dif regulations.
Writer conference springboard (paragraph), outline/premise - 2/3 page. Scene by scene - 2/3 length of script - limited dialogue jut to flesh out the scene, see if it works again. Drafts of script - up to 6 but varies. Others add jokes or changed etc - person to polish it is chosen depending on what the script needs. Script editor - manage relationships. Conduit of notes, rewrites, generate ideas, connect w/rest of production team afterwards. Notes from everyone.
Who's story? What do they want? Wat obstacles can we put in their way? What do they learn? Audience? You will FEEL it if it isn't working right. Don't be too precious! Don't worry about baring yourself. Board driven - great for visual jokes etc. BBC tend not to, weed v- talented writer and boarder. You can fix design later but if the foundation is wrong it can never be right.
During a recessions people don't take risks. Courage - weirder shows - nothing to prove, no comparison.
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