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their hour come round at last
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We do that research first, but our characters aren't a way to check off boxes. We use the research to direct our imagination, and from there, we try to create real people, warts and all. [2/2]
#ComedyScribeMonday Lots of research with:
- people who know us well enough to feel comfortable telling us to buzz off or that we got it wrong.
- videos, articles, etc. written by people with those experiences about ways they're underserved in stories.
[1/2, my god I'm wordy] https://t.co/UMJOsVsjzI
How do you tackle writing characters whose experience is further from your own? #ComedyScribeMonday https://t.co/DrTjn9gCJ9
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... the voice, so I rewrite a lot of those lines between recording and rehearsal.
As for "the studio..." that's our dining room! We're hoping to have the funds to have a real recording space one day, but we're definitely not there yet.
#ComedyScribeMonday Nope, I'm there for recording, rewriting lines to suit actors' voices or Soph's directorial notes. We always have one rehearsal day, then some revisions, then a few recording days. When a character is first cast it's important to me to fit the lines to ... https://t.co/wct9AJwPcB
And I have to ask... do you lock all your scripts and then they just go pretty much as-is into the studio? Or are there revisions? And what does that look like? Cast readings? etc? #ComedyScribeMonday
#comedyscribemonday Def a good thing, so long as we treat it responsibly. This is why we ask around so much when we want to incorporate characters w/ identities we don't have: to learn, & by inhabiting their experience & having people check if we've done it well, to internalize. https://t.co/6ZpfA48KsK
So cool! Do you find this being outside your comfort zone as a writer a good thing? Or something you will try to lessen? #ComedyScribeMonday https://t.co/0TtNr9IJ0h
#ComedyScribeMonday That led us to Lady of the Lake, and then spending so much time in her head and seeing how different her voice is in writing as opposed to dialogue made her totally click... and to my earlier point about the show changing us, it also made the discomfort fade.
#ComedyScribeMonday That said, I feel more comfortable with characters as I set up questions about them I want to answer. SC's pattern of secrecy was a rough draft on-the-spot decision; the creative move we made was in not deleting it, and instead asking: but wait, why? https://t.co/IGSHxyiyq8
#ComedyScribeMonday Sir Caroline was definitely a lot harder for me to write, & though all of our characters are some of me and some of Sophie, SC is definitely more her. (This is part of the reason bits in Caves of Discord make me cringe -- I was writing outside my comfort zone) https://t.co/f4LWek5Exj
#ComedyScribeMonday Sir Caroline was definitely a lot harder for me to write, & though all of our characters are some of me and some of Sophie, SC is definitely more her. (This is part of the reason bits in Caves of Discord make me cringe -- I was writing outside my comfort zone) https://t.co/f4LWek5Exj
Juno is, I assume, one of your most beloved storylines. But I have to ask about Sir Caroline. Where Juno is the noir private eye genre reborn, Sir Caroline is part fable, part Robin Hood and everything awesome. Can you talk about how they developed? #ComedyScribeMonday
#ComedyScribeMonday ... by which I mean, that's the point at which I stop asking, "Is this in character? Would they say this?" And instead I just do an impression of them onto the page. The Rex in the remake was a more comfortable "impression" of the character for me. [2/2]
#ComedyScribeMonday What's funny is that it was actually easier the second time, and for me, the personality shift was because I didn't quite get him the first time.
I have a theory going that it takes me about three scripts to get a character's voice stuck in my head [1/2] https://t.co/grhmS3BVxO
#ComedyScribeMonday one of the biggest changes that stands out to me in 2Mask2Murderous is "Rex Glass"; why the shift in personality? How was it finding a new voice for him?
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5) Resolution (the conflict is addressed and some change has occurred)
3 is my addition, though I'm sure I'm not the first. I have a student who once referred to it as "the rope is a snake," and that name is more genius than I could have come up with. [3/3]
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2) Conflict arises (a problem presents itself, a solution is planned or attempted)
3) Something goes wrong (someone makes a mistake, the situation is more complicated than we thought, etc.)
4) Climax (the make-or-break moment)
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#ComedyScribeMonday Totally! It's a spin on the classic Freytag's triangle (https://t.co/QFVrnmAYCu), but w/ 1adjustment I find useful. Basically I split up the plot into 5 parts:
1) Introduction (a hook to catch interest, set-up for the mystery, intro characters, etc.)
[1/?] https://t.co/4JaRc0pV0Y
Can you go into a little more detail on this "Five Point Outline" you stuck to in season 1? Is it just the story in five bullets or a specific treatment/plot device or approach? SO CURIOUS! #ComedyScribeMonday
#ComedyScribeMonday Literally got somber for like a week after Stolen City was finished because my pure broomstachioed police captain would be gone for a while, and I missed the pure Shakespearean/Seussian joy of just making up words whenever the heck https://t.co/28HFkhUBc7
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My children, my precious children, I couldn't possibly choose between--
3) Rita
2) Sir Damien
1) Captain KHAN https://t.co/liaEBkCfUi
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My children, my precious children, I couldn't possibly choose between--
3) Rita
2) Sir Damien
1) Captain KHAN https://t.co/liaEBkCfUi
#ComedyScribeMonday If our constant forays into horror at extremely inconvenient times hasn't been me wearing my heart on my billboard that says "I LOVE HORROR:" horror. I especially love weird horror (been super into @jeffvandermeer lately) and campy, ridiculous slashers. https://t.co/4LCpGJ3roB
Yeah, with Juno you've taken old-school noir and flipped its homophobic streak on on its head. And done queer fantasy with Second Citadel. Any other big genres you'd love to give the same treatment? #ComedyScribeMonday https://t.co/KiQ0S5d2dx
@sponched I am and I would never wish that on another human being, even one I make miserable for creative fulfillment.
(Captain Khan is lactose intolerant though) #ComedyScribeMonday https://t.co/cTalqqHzj0
... spent a while reading page turners and thrillers to figure out what made them tick, and really went back to square one on what plot is. For season 1 I pretty religiously used a five-point outline; now I start with that and let it mutate from there. #ComedyScribeMonday https://t.co/rUgb1ihFbX
#comedyscribemonday I learned pace the hard way, honestly. My first long writing project was a 500-page monster that I spent years on and had no plot: it was just a bunch of set-ups dovetailing into punchlines for way, way, WAY too long. But in the time before the show I... https://t.co/ARkF6OfAjO
Yeah, with Juno you've taken old-school noir and flipped its homophobic streak on on its head. And done queer fantasy with Second Citadel. Any other big genres you'd love to give the same treatment? #ComedyScribeMonday https://t.co/KiQ0S5d2dx
#ComedyScribeMonday That's part of why we like genre fiction, too: it's been so straight/cis for so long that the tropes we play with still have a million perspectives that haven't been applied yet. (So basically: never listen when they tell you every story's already been told.) https://t.co/HgpEppnulw
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