Writing the TV Drama Series 3rd edition. Pamela Douglas

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       • Backup scripts

       Year Two

       June: Staffing

       July and August: Write Like Crazy

       Chart: Sample Character Arcs for a Season

       September and October: The Debut

       November through March: Completing the Season

       April: Hiatus

       What’s New?

       Summary Points

       GUEST SPEAKER: CHARLES COLLIER

       President, AMC Cable TV

       CHAPTER THREE

       HOW A CLASSIC SCRIPT IS CRAFTED

       The Dramatic Beat

       A–B–C Stories

       Chart: Basic Four-Act Grid

       Five- and Six-act Structure

       The More Things Change…

       The Two-Page Scene

       Using the Grid

       Teasers

       About these Excerpts

       Excerpt from NYPD Blue, “Simone Says”

       Analysis

       Opening Scenes

       Scene 1

       Scene 2

       Scene 3

       Scene 4

       Scene 5

       Scene 6

       The Second Excerpt

       Excerpt from NYPD Blue, “Hearts and Souls”

       Analysis

       Cold Opening

       Act One

       What You Should Do Next

       Summary Points

       GUEST SPEAKER: STEVEN BOCHCO (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue)

       SPOTLIGHT ON WRITING PROCEDURALS

       GUEST SPEAKER: ANN DONAHUE (CSI: NY, CSI: Miami)

       GUEST SPEAKERS: MICHELLE & ROBERT KING (The Good Wife)

       CHAPTER FOUR

       WRITING YOUR OWN EPISODE

       “Hearing Voices”

       Finding your stories

       Breaking your stories

       Credibility

       Rooting interest

       The Grid

       Chart: Basic Four-Act Grid

       The Outline

       How to write your outline

       Outline Sample

       Alternate outline forms

       Fragment of ER outline

       Sonny’s List

       Your First Draft

       Sample script format

       Troubleshooting

       If you’re running long

       If you’re running short

       At the end of it all…

       Your Second Draft

       Your Polish

       What’s next?

       Summary Points

       GUEST SPEAKER: DAVID SIMON (Homicide, The Wire, Treme)

       SPOTLIGHT ON WRITING YOUR PILOT SCRIPT

       Create the “World”

       Find the Story Springboards

       Populate the “World”

       Make a Plan

       GUEST SPEAKER: GEORGIA JEFFRIES (Cagney & Lacey, China Beach)

       CHAPTER FIVE

       IT’S WHO YOU KNOW: WORKING ON STAFF

       The Staff from Hell

       Mistake 1: Don’t separate from the staff.

       Mistake 2: Don’t mix personal and work issues.

       Mistake 3: Don’t have other plans.

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