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Soap Writers and ba writing habits
Why do the soaps insist on cutting the scene just as something is about to be revealed or something said
Like when Shirley told Sharon about Phil Sharon asked 'Whats happened to phil' And the scene cut and its left to us to fill in the gaps about what's been said It's happening more and more these days and its so annoying to me. |
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Why do the soaps insist on cutting the scene just as something is about to be revealed or something said
Like when Shirley told Sharon about Phil Sharon asked 'Whats happened to phil' And the scene cut and its left to us to fill in the gaps about what's been said It's happening more and more these days and its so annoying to me. |
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We don't need to hear another recap of what we already know. That's would be redundant dialogue. What would be the point in seeing Shirley tell Sharon about Phil being in a car crash? We can guess Sharon's reaction, we know exactly what Shirley is going to say, so it's not going to give us anything new. The whole point of that scene is to place Sharon in the loop, so we know she hasn't been totally forgotten about. It isn't necessary to see them exchange details.
Soapnut: I think it's a bit rich calling the writers crap and "taking the easy option and cutting corners," when you clearly know zip about the fundamentals of screen writing. Take a class, and then you'll learn why we don't need to see the same thing repeated every time. |
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We don't need to hear another recap of what we already know. That's would be redundant dialogue. What would be the point in seeing Shirley tell Sharon about Phil being in a car crash? We can guess Sharon's reaction, we know exactly what Shirley is going to say, so it's not going to give us anything new. The whole point of that scene is to place Sharon in the loop, so we know she hasn't been totally forgotten about. It isn't necessary to see them exchange details.
Soapnut: I think it's a bit rich calling the writers crap and "taking the easy option and cutting corners," when you clearly know zip about the fundamentals of screen writing. Take a class, and then you'll learn why we don't need to see the same thing repeated every time. |
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The days of BAFTA award-winning scripts are long gone sadly, anyone can see that.
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Could anyone remind me who won the BAFTA for continuing drama this year, please? I've forgotten...
- a single episode doesn't account for award-winning drama.. |
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The days of BAFTA award-winning scripts are long gone sadly, anyone can see that. I suppose anyone else with the same view (the majority of the forum it seems) should take a course too? I'm merely pointing out that standards have slipped and noticeably too, that's all.
Pointing out that the storytelling isn't as good as it once was is not answering the OP. It's generalising and taking a swipe at the show for the sake of it. All I was trying to do was point out that certain writing choices are made that would still be made with good or bad writing. Maybe my tone was a little harsh, but whatever, I've seen way worse on here. |
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Baffling really, even the cast looked shocked
- a single episode doesn't account for award-winning drama.. |
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Nonetheless, it was a single episode that went on to win a BAFTA, so your claims of the show no longer being BAFTA-worthy are clearly wrong. Doesn't matter whether you thought it was deserved or not.
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I thought the thread title was being ironic
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I thought the thread title was being ironic
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Deschanel is correct that this is a basic screenwriting technique. To move the episode along because it would be come very tedious to watch every day of the week. The only type of show that gets away with this is American Daytime Soaps.
All most all television shows do this and have been doing this for decades. |
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I only watch Coronation Street and Emmerdale. We have soome brilliantly written and acted scenes, then we are exposed to utter drivel. Do the writers do a 3 day week, and leave the other days to the soap fairies to write?
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Simon Ashdown is the only good writer in Eastenders, all his episodes put attention to detail, and have great pace and dialogue. The rest of the writers are dross and need to be replaced by quality writers. We need a writers cull for Eastenders to get its viewing figures back.
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Simon Ashdown is the only good writer in Eastenders, all his episodes put attention to detail, and have great pace and dialogue. The rest of the writers are dross and need to be replaced by quality writers. We need a writers cull for Eastenders to get its viewing figures back.
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EE, CS and ED really need to cut back to two or three days a week. The 5 means we have some appalling writing to fill the gaps.
I think EE and CS should be on twice a week, and ED three times, as ED seems to cope better with 5 days than the other two. Say have ED and CS on Monday, EE on Tuesday, ED on Wednesday, ED and CS on Thursday then EE on Friday. They would each have a chance at decent viewing figures, and having EE on days on it's own would mean it would get better ratings. It doesn't really mater with ED and CS because they're hardly rivals, more like sister soaps. |
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- a single episode doesn't account for award-winning drama..
