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Post by onali on Apr 28, 2017 10:50:34 GMT -5
How does co-writing work? People with 2 different takes on a story, where does one begin and the other end? One makes a draft and the other one finishes it? Even though the first one didn't intend on ending the way ot did. Or do they talk about beginning, middle, end and only leave dialogue open?
Saw in the credits that Perez did the story editing on the latest one. What does that mean?
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Post by anouck9 on Apr 28, 2017 12:53:38 GMT -5
Saw in the credits that Perez did the story editing on the latest one. What does that mean? I'l love to know too, because I would have thought that a new writer like Perez doesn't get to edit other people work, especially since Berens has been there a hell of a lot longer than Perez (even if he seems to have lost all talent with Dabb at the helm)
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Post by thesnowleopard on Apr 28, 2017 19:55:06 GMT -5
Collaboration really depends on the writers. When my friend Judith and I co-wrote Fraterfamilias, we hashed out the general storyline beforehand, then each of us wrote individual scenes (or even whole storylines or characters) and put them together. Then we each went over the final product for a major edit to make sure everything hung together and the continuity worked, and such.
But there are other ways to do collaboration. For example, it's not uncommon with a script for a writer to write out a story treatment (which usually runs a few pages of expositional writing) of the episode and then another writer expands that into a script. There are also people who do script treatments who work exclusively on dialogue or on plot.
It's possible that the job Perez currently has is the one Jenny Klein used to have, which is actually a writing assistant.
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