'Trash' outline is up.

POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 04:20
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HAKEN

Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:39 AM

The 'Trash' outline is up. A very educational read for those interested in seeing how an episode goes from outline to script.

LJC

Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:15 AM

Woo! beat sheets are *cool*!

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Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

LERXST

Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:48 AM

Ooooh. Another goody. Thanks Haken!

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SWITCHY

Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:59 AM

Fantastic. You said goodies and once again you came through. I never doubted, just eager is all.
Do you know how many outlines were completed? how far the story had been developed, episode wise?

LJC

Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:20 AM

Well, basically the writers sit down in the writers' room and "break" the story (usually using a white board, or index cards) as a group. Then a beat sheet is written, containing an outline of the script with all the dramatic "beats" broken down and handed off to whomever is writing the draft, who uses that beat sheet to write the draft.

So, I'm assuming it's likely that beat sheets were created for the entire second script order in November (which was, if I recall correctly, 5 scripts--which means potentially 3 after "The Message"). But I've no clue how many scripts were actually written beyond "The Message" (tho my guess is there was at least one, since they didn't *know* the show was going to have production haletd when it did, which would mean they had to have been prepping a new script while "The Message" was filming).

Um... right, so, call me queen of the parentheticals...

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Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.