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This article is nonsense with one small “of course we should listen to talent” nugget of truth.
Of course there are better and worse processes, but filmmaking of collaborative. Not how this piece sneakily credits one director, not the two the series had. https://twitter.com/guardianculture/status/1284188386668904449
Of course there are better and worse processes, but filmmaking of collaborative. Not how this piece sneakily credits one director, not the two the series had. https://twitter.com/guardianculture/status/1284188386668904449
“I May Destroy You has very obviously not been through an endless editing process of notes.” Go look up the other executive producers - former channel commissioners - and tell me if that sounds likely.
191 drafts *in spite* of getting no real notes from top notes-givers?!
191 drafts *in spite* of getting no real notes from top notes-givers?!
Listen, most scripts aren’t good enough. They just aren’t. The process exists to get them good. We are not at a surplus of writers whose third drafts are *perfect* to shoot - pleasing cast, channel, budget, marketing.
And you don’t get good by not heeding useful advice.
And you don’t get good by not heeding useful advice.
MIchaela is a wunderkind who writes rings round most of us. But that didn’t come from nowhere. Beyond her innate talent is a gift for grasping the form - which includes utilising the help around her.
A producer who’s on your side beats one you ignore to push your vision forward.
A producer who’s on your side beats one you ignore to push your vision forward.
I don’t know why the Guardian - who I pay donations to for their survival - is so relentlessly bad at talking about how film and TV are made. But I do wish they’d spend more time learning how these things work and less regurgitating these same old “execs bad, authors good” myths.
What is “the usual machine-tooled TV drama” anyway?
Would The Wire not be, since it had a writers room? (“Writing by committee”) Is Line of Duty not machine-tooled? (“Sole author!”)
Is it not understood that having wide-appeal shows is *how* you also get esoteric oddities?
Would The Wire not be, since it had a writers room? (“Writing by committee”) Is Line of Duty not machine-tooled? (“Sole author!”)
Is it not understood that having wide-appeal shows is *how* you also get esoteric oddities?
I just handed her a bag of tools nobody had yet managed to offer her - methods for making a sitcom work while retaining every inch of her authorship - and she took them and carved masterpieces.
All her own work. But good collaboration is elevating. https://twitter.com/RevAMol/status/1284486778813120518
All her own work. But good collaboration is elevating. https://twitter.com/RevAMol/status/1284486778813120518
This is a very good point. Take a commission for a slot, reheat the same old truisms without so much as ten minutes research, and have it machine-tooled for release. Ridiculous hypocrisy. https://twitter.com/rufusjones1/status/1284487733751283715
