Comments on: reading about food http://fionawood.com/2012/05/07/reading-about-food/ Australian Author Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:33:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: fiona http://fionawood.com/2012/05/07/reading-about-food/comment-page-1/#comment-704 fiona Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:56:22 +0000 http://fionawood.com/?p=1001#comment-704 It varies a lot from show to show, Matt, with the one-hour drama format requiring the most input from writers about everything that happens in an episode. On a show like Home and Away, the writer meets with the in-house script team and talks through all the ideas for the episode in question, and how that story might best be told, taking into account all the restrictions on cast and how the episode will be divided between studio time and location time. Then the writer generates a document called a scene breakdown. This is prose description of what will happen in each scene. Once that is approved, and any changes are fed into it by production and script people, the next step is writing the script itself. And, yes, the script you deliver just has the scene headings, a list of all character in the scene, and then each character name above the dialogue line he or she will be delivering, as well as 'big print' - the action lines, and anything that needs to be in parenthesis - which goes after the character name and before the dialogue line. But I'm not sure why you need all this information, and I haven't written for H and A for years, now, so my information may be quite out of date. The best way to engage with a show like this is to contact THEM - just get the name of the script producer from the credits, ring the network, say you would like to send that person an email, and ask if you can have their email address; if they don't want to give you the email, write the script producer a polite letter via snail mail - and ask if they are accepting any submissions at the moment, or have any in-house observer opportunities coming up for which you can apply. If they want to see your work, I'm sure they will happily send you some current guidelines. It varies a lot from show to show, Matt, with the one-hour drama format requiring the most input from writers about everything that happens in an episode. On a show like Home and Away, the writer meets with the in-house script team and talks through all the ideas for the episode in question, and how that story might best be told, taking into account all the restrictions on cast and how the episode will be divided between studio time and location time. Then the writer generates a document called a scene breakdown. This is prose description of what will happen in each scene. Once that is approved, and any changes are fed into it by production and script people, the next step is writing the script itself. And, yes, the script you deliver just has the scene headings, a list of all character in the scene, and then each character name above the dialogue line he or she will be delivering, as well as ‘big print’ – the action lines, and anything that needs to be in parenthesis – which goes after the character name and before the dialogue line. But I’m not sure why you need all this information, and I haven’t written for H and A for years, now, so my information may be quite out of date. The best way to engage with a show like this is to contact THEM – just get the name of the script producer from the credits, ring the network, say you would like to send that person an email, and ask if you can have their email address; if they don’t want to give you the email, write the script producer a polite letter via snail mail – and ask if they are accepting any submissions at the moment, or have any in-house observer opportunities coming up for which you can apply. If they want to see your work, I’m sure they will happily send you some current guidelines.

]]> By: Matt Armstrong http://fionawood.com/2012/05/07/reading-about-food/comment-page-1/#comment-703 Matt Armstrong Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:23:44 +0000 http://fionawood.com/?p=1001#comment-703 Thanks. So you just type: ALF Stone the flaming crows ?? Also, when writers write, do they recieve a document that has who's in a scene, what they are talking about and what happens in that scene and the writer has to write the actions, dialogue and paratheticals or what? Thanks. So you just type:

ALF
Stone the flaming crows

??

Also, when writers write, do they recieve a document that has who’s in a scene, what they are talking about and what happens in that scene and the writer has to write the actions, dialogue and paratheticals or what?

]]> By: fiona http://fionawood.com/2012/05/07/reading-about-food/comment-page-1/#comment-702 fiona Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:00:29 +0000 http://fionawood.com/?p=1001#comment-702 Hi there, Matt, the numbering on lines of dialogue is done by the script department as part of the editing process, not by the writer. Hi there, Matt, the numbering on lines of dialogue is done by the script department as part of the editing process, not by the writer.

]]> By: Matt Armstrong http://fionawood.com/2012/05/07/reading-about-food/comment-page-1/#comment-701 Matt Armstrong Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:50:22 +0000 http://fionawood.com/?p=1001#comment-701 Hey Fiona. I got a copy of a Home and Away script extract, however I have one question that I don't know about and could you help me out with it. The dialogue is numbered so it might be: 1. ALF (or) 1 ALF Stone the flaming crows Is the numbering before the character name automatic or do you do it manually? Do you know how to make it do that on a template? Cheers, Matt. Hey Fiona.

I got a copy of a Home and Away script extract, however I have one question that I don’t know about and could you help me out with it.

The dialogue is numbered so it might be:

1. ALF (or) 1 ALF
Stone the flaming crows

Is the numbering before the character name automatic or do you do it manually? Do you know how to make it do that on a template? Cheers, Matt.

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