Sunday, November 15, 2009
Writers Room
In order to get a better understanding on how this whole thing came together for us here at ASU, I decided to ask our writers how their experience has been in the writers room? What kind of challenges have you faced in writing your days?
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I have never been in a writer's room outside of an english class and that was lame. Our writer's room is unique because we're all kinda learning how to do it together. In the writer's room we're all equals and everybody gets their word in. It's crazy that we actually all get along. I know real writer's rooms don't always run so smooth. I think at first we we were unsure of how to organize our ideas, but after a few weeks we worked out the kinks.
ReplyDeleteWell I don't know about us all getting along, personally I don't trust that Coco kid... (phillies fan) Everyone else is cool though. haha. But it is cool being in a writers room like that, it gives everyone a feel of what a real writer's room would be like. I think the hardest challenge that we continuously encounter is how to make our posts applicable to twitter, because obviously people don't post on twitter when they are in a dangerous situation. But I think that we deal with it well and find ways around it to still dramatize the situation
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy being in an open forum situation like the Kelly_4ever writers room because it allows for total creative freedom. Some days it seems hard to dramatize a scene or make a situation seem real, so it's awesome having seventeen other writers bouncing ideas off of one another to create the best script possible. I think the biggest challenge we have been confronted with is the ability to make the tweets seem real. Our platform of publication (on Twitter) gives us both a unique channel of entertainment delivery as well as the challenge of making posts in 160 words or less seem real.
ReplyDeleteTelling a compelling story through any medium is a difficult job, so on that level the very essence of the project was intrinsically challenging. However, using Twitter to deliver the story added special obstacles. First, as Sara mentioned, the 140 character limit on Tweets. As the semester went on 140 characters seemed to get less and less. Another special challenge was dramatizing action. In a script, your goal is to show, not tell. For us it was the opposite...our story had to be told 100% through dialogue. How do you best dramatize a Halloween party? A late-night chase scene? A mysterious scavenger hunt? Those are the kinds of questions we were forced to answer, and I think everybody did a great job of rising to the challenge.
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