What do you favour when writing TV scripts? The more basic meat and veg no-nonsense style of something like The Office, or the more elaborate fancy style of a show like Spaced, which involves a lot of cut aways and the like? I tend to go for the simpler style, mainly because the fancier you make it the more technically complex it becomes to write.
Quote: chipolata @ January 28, 2008, 1:17 PMWhat do you favour when writing TV scripts? The more basic meat and veg no-nonsense style of something like The Office, or the more elaborate fancy style of a show like Spaced, which involves a lot of cut aways and the like? I tend to go for the simpler style, mainly because the fancier you make it the more technically complex it becomes to write.
Well, most comedies boil down to the written word.
Just because a cut away in Spaced looks flashy and complicated, on the page it's all very simple.
I would imagine a lot of the little touches in Spaced came from Edgar Wright, and weren't written in the script.
I like simpler. I love to keep things as simple as possible, I actually have some sort of O.C.D, to keeping things neat 'n tidy. If the page was cluttered with crazy cutaways and other such things, my mind wouldn'tbe able to handle it.
I like to make the most out of the least amount, if that makes any sense?
Quote: Leevil @ January 28, 2008, 1:34 PMI like simpler. I love to keep things as simple as possible, I actually have some sort of O.C.D, to keeping things neat 'n tidy. If the page was cluttered with crazy cutaways and other such things, my mind wouldn'tbe able to handle it.
I like to make the most out of the least amount, if that makes any sense?
It's a lot harder explaining a funny thing - ie a visual bit - then writing a verbal joke. I tend to make it technical, it's funnier than trying to make it funny using flowery language. If that makes sense, which I suspect it doesn't.
I agree about keeping things simple on the page - I even balk at fade out and cut to. I do, however, envy people who can write a script like Spaced, with all the whistles and bells.
Quote: chipolata @ January 28, 2008, 1:37 PMI agree about keeping things simple on the page - I even balk at fade out and cut to. I do, however, envy people who can write a script like Spaced, with all the whistles and bells.
Apart from the cut aways - what else is there?
I doubt it's that complicated written down.
It is for me. Plus I don't like to interrupt the flow of the scene too much.
Quote: Seefacts @ January 28, 2008, 1:45 PMApart from the cut aways - what else is there?
I doubt it's that complicated written down.
I suppose so. But still, I bet more thought went into locations and props and costumes and sets.
Edgar Wright just ripped off Sami Rami in the first series of Spaced. He's very proud of it, ha.
But yeah, it's complicated sometiems writing a visual joke, etc.