Matt, do you subscribe to Jane Espenson's blog through your live journal (or otherwise). She's been talking a lot about spec scripts.
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I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 09, 2006 10:44:33 am PDT #9336 of 10001
What is even happening?
Kristen - Apr 09, 2006 11:12:09 am PDT #9337 of 10001
Do you have to write spec scripts for scripted shows, seeing as how the script itself isn't generally intended to be shot?
Generally speaking, yes. (Though there are some people now who only want to read pilots or features and don't care about specs for existing shows.) Specs are writing samples designed to demonstrate that a) you know how to tell a story and b) you can mimic someone else's voice.
aurelia - Apr 09, 2006 1:04:33 pm PDT #9338 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I think Drive will probably be difficult to spec, in the same way that Lost, 24 and Desperate Housewives are difficult to spec.
Prequel.
Kessie - Apr 09, 2006 1:51:48 pm PDT #9339 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
I´d also take something character based, with humor and of course lots of drama. But since I hardly know anything about Drive it would be hard to do that. There are not many dramas out there which one could take, but I then I hardly know everything on US TV. Hm, maybe a Battlestar Galactica with a out of character plotline, since they aren´t exactly much jokes in show, I think? Honestly I have no idea. As for Lost, 24, DH I think you are right. For 24, for example, I can only think of starting a new day for a spec, which would be, lets face it, lame.
Polter-Cow - Apr 09, 2006 9:12:27 pm PDT #9340 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So just saw "Gem"
If you would like to heart me, you know the drill.
Allyson - Apr 10, 2006 4:38:29 am PDT #9341 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'd just spec Knight Rider. Just for fun. Getting KIT's voice right, though, that could be tricky.
Kessie - Apr 10, 2006 8:11:31 am PDT #9342 of 10001
The thing about life is :You can rehearse it all you want,
But nobody else ever sticks to the script. So why bother?
As long as it doesn´t have David Hasselhoff I´m all for it. You could replace him with ... how about a beagle? Cause beagles are always good aren´t they?
Calli - Apr 10, 2006 8:24:51 am PDT #9343 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Awwwww, a beagle poking at KIT's buttons with its wee nose and pawing the steering wheel. I'd watch.
Tim Minear - Apr 10, 2006 1:38:23 pm PDT #9344 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"
A beagle with a "wee nose"? Mine are all proboscides.
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2006 1:40:04 pm PDT #9345 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's fiction. You can do that.