How They Wrote ‘The Office’

Word around showbiz is that The Office is going to become the lynch pin of NBC Universal’s upcoming streaming service and potentially the biggest thing on TV any and all types.

For those of you – and us – who are wondering how the show’s writers reached this acme of perfection, well, here’s their word on the subject.

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The Truth About Writing Dialog

Over a career longer than most of us have been alive and breathing, our BLLB AKA Beloved Leader Larry Brody, two of things that he is most eager to share are as follows:

  • Energy sells. Not only your pitching energy, but writing energy. Sentences that zoom from the page and into our brains, filling us with emotion.
  • Great dialog sells even more. Most readers, even the most professional of them, look down the page at the dialog first, and then if it sparks them and makes them say, “Wow!” they pay attention to what else you have to offer.

Keep both those thoughts in mind as you read this excellent and wonderfully titled piece (not written by LB, sorry) on “The art of dialogue.”

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New Media and Made for TV Films

Remember when feature films used to be the leaders in cinematic expression?

No?

Well, come to think about it, that was pretty long ago. Here’s an interesting video about the new leaders of the media pack. Enjoy and learn, gang! read article

Questions You Absolutely Must Answer When Developing Your Own TV Series

Today’s maven is Peter Russell

We like this video because it does such a great job of presenting all the basics TV series creators need to know, and in just under 12 minutes to boot.

Not to engage in the sneaky advertising thing we all hate so much (Lordy! We would never do that!), but the info below definitely should be considered by anybody entering TVWriter™’s PEOPLE’S PILOT 2019 Spec Pilot Competition. (Conveniently located HERE and HERE

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How They Wrote Fight Club

How in the world could anybody who has ever heard of Fight Club resist watching a video about the creation of this classic film?

Chuck Palahniuk (author), Jim Uhls (screenwriter), David Fincher (director), plus a host of others who were involved with the project are here for our educational pleasure. Who needs clickbait when you have info like this?

See more videos like this on the Behind the Curtain YouTube Channel