 | | 10-31-2007, 04:42 AM |
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| Once again, Jane Espenson. She was a guest blogger on Jenny Crusie's blog yesterday and answered a couple of GG questions (the whole piece is worth a read):
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What was it like to work for Gilmore Girls?
It was fun and incredibly educational with respect to story structure. They structured stories in a way I’d never seen before: much, much looser with respect to the traditional rules of drama. What they’d lose in, say, on-screen conflict, they’d gain in verisimilitude — episodes unfolded in a very naturalistic fashion. I learned a huge amount.
(Again about Gilmore Girls) How do you pull off that rapid-fire dialogue?
Write a lot of it and make the actors talk fast. Their scripts were literally almost twice as long as a Firefly, Buffy or Battlestar script. The actors had to be letter-perfect and they had to rocket through it.
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