Dear Stuart,

I would be interested how the screenplay develops, based on  
improvisation work.


Techniques like this are used in practise. It is between screenwriting  
for fiction and reality tv.


The producer/screenwriter (or both) tell the actors/improvisators what  
is the beginning of the scene/sequence is and how they should end the  
scene.  There is not a given any dialogue, the are only "characters".


The actors play/improvise from this charactors-driven point of view.  
By improvisation techniques they start the scene and with twists they  
end this scene/sequence according to the given assignments.


It often provokes interesting discussions: maybe the actors can't end  
the scene the way they are supposed to (because of the given  
characters). Maybe they evolve to a more interesting situation, but it  
doesn't fit in the tv-series (between reality and fiction).


Of course the actors can choose for the more pragmatic situation  
("this is what the producers want, this is what they get as long as I  
am paid").


But I have witnessed honest discussions between actors and producers/ 
screenwriters (f.e. one actress said: "with that character, I can  
never fall in love with the antagonist").



Dear Stuart, I am very interested in a this research situation of  
screenwriting and improvisation in your university.  Screenwriting and  
improvisation can be very rich experiments.


This is very close to the work of practitioners (between screenwriting  
for fiction and reality tv).




Hugo




Op 27-sep-12, om 10:43 heeft Stuart Hepburn het volgende geschreven:

> I thought the network  might like to read about the launch of the  
> Studio Lab  project at University Of The West Of Scotland . The  
> project is designed to devise a one hour studio-based screenplay for  
> level 10 BA (Hons) Contemporary Screen Acting students.
> In a 12 week process, the screenplay  will be entirely generated by  
> the  improvisational  work of  a core of 12 actors. I will be exec  
> producer and ensure that the material is  sculpted and edited into a  
> final agreed shooting script, and then  recorded in our TV studio.  
> Think of it as Mike Leigh in a studio.
> http://wp.me/py33J-lS
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> Stuart Hepburn
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> Subject: Re: Frequent words and phrases in television dialogue
>
> For  practitioners, this is a very remarkable and useful study,
> Monika.  Certainly for non English speaking writers, who want to try
> to write in English and avoid expensif translations.
>
>
>
> There should be more studies like that.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Hugo
>
>
>
>
> Op 27-sep-12, om 06:09 heeft Monika Bednarek het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've compiled a list of frequent words and phrases in contemporary
>> US television dialogue - in case any of you are interested, you can
>> access this here:
>>
>> http://www.monikabednarek.com/8.html
>>
>> This is based on transcripts (rather than scripts), so should
>> reflect what characters actually utter on screen (the data that I
>> worked with do not include any language other than the dialogue).
>>
>> Monika
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