Did anyone understand the business about the script?

Previously on Studio 60 ^W^W uk.media.tv.west-wing, "Liz J" 
<thejordanschangethistoanatsignclara.net> said ...
> Did anyone understand the business about the script? 
> 
> 
What business about the script?  Do you mean the page layout - 40 second 
vs half hour format?
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"Liz J" <thejordanschangethistoanatsignclara.net> wrote in message 
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> Did anyone understand the business about the script?

Saw this a while back, so memory a bit hazy, but I think it referred to the 
size of paper used for a "pilot" script, as opposed to subsequent episodes. 
The pilot page was smaller, so running time (based on number of pages) 
turned out to be wrong.  Sumfink like that, I think... others here will know 
better....


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Previously on Studio 60 ^W^W uk.media.tv.west-wing, Martin said ...
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> "Liz J" <thejordanschangethistoanatsignclara.net> wrote in message 
> news:1190661615.21517.0@proxy00.news.clara.net...
> > Did anyone understand the business about the script?
> 
> Saw this a while back, so memory a bit hazy, but I think it referred to the 
> size of paper used for a "pilot" script, as opposed to subsequent episodes. 
> The pilot page was smaller, so running time (based on number of pages) 
> turned out to be wrong.  Sumfink like that, I think... others here will know 
> better....
> 
Print layout, rather than size of paper, IIRC.  But the control room will 
know how long each page of script should take and will base their 
calculations accordingly.  

Ricky & Ron had been printing a show in half hour format, rather than the 
40 second/page that S60 were used to.  So everything finished earlier than 
it should.
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> Previously on Studio 60 ^W^W uk.media.tv.west-wing, Martin said ...
>>
>> "Liz J" <thejordanschangethistoanatsignclara.net> wrote in message
>> news:1190661615.21517.0@proxy00.news.clara.net...
>> > Did anyone understand the business about the script?
>>
>> Saw this a while back, so memory a bit hazy, but I think it referred to 
>> the
>> size of paper used for a "pilot" script, as opposed to subsequent 
>> episodes.
>> The pilot page was smaller, so running time (based on number of pages)
>> turned out to be wrong.  Sumfink like that, I think... others here will 
>> know
>> better....
>>
> Print layout, rather than size of paper, IIRC.  But the control room will
> know how long each page of script should take and will base their
> calculations accordingly.
>
> Ricky & Ron had been printing a show in half hour format, rather than the
> 40 second/page that S60 were used to.  So everything finished earlier than
> it should.
> -- 
> Fenny

Ah - thanks for that.  I just hope I'm not alone in always needing to watch 
sorkin more than twice to "get it".... :-)))

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Previously on Studio 60 ^W^W uk.media.tv.west-wing, Martin said ...
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> Ah - thanks for that.  I just hope I'm not alone in always needing to watch 
> sorkin more than twice to "get it".... :-)))
> 
I'm still "getting" bits of TWW, even though I've seen most of it an awful 
lot more than twice.  There's so much packed into it that there's always 
another little bit to get.

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forget it's not a democracy, it's a republic. People don't make the 
decisions, they choose the people who make the decisions. Could they do a 
better job choosing? Yeah. But when you consider the alternatives...

> Ricky & Ron had been printing a show in half hour format, rather than the
> 40 second/page that S60 were used to.  So everything finished earlier than
> it should.
> -- 
> Fenny
>
I think the bit that I was getting confused about was that I thought they 
were talking about 40 min per page and that seemed a bit daft.

I understood the consequences of the mistake once I realised that it was 
only one page that was affected.  At first I couldn't understand why it 
didn't finish 10 mins early and why no one had noticed earlier!

Previously on Studio 60 ^W^W uk.media.tv.west-wing, "Liz J" 
<thejordanschangethistoanatsignclara.net> said ...
> >
> I think the bit that I was getting confused about was that I thought they 
> were talking about 40 min per page and that seemed a bit daft.
> 
> 
These are the bits people complain are too "inside baseball".  But nobody 
ever had any problems with all the stuff in TWW about bills getting marked 
up in committee, or whatever.  It's just the lingo and once you suss that 
there's a problem and what the consequences are, it really doesn't matter.   
Especially as Aaron is going to tell you half a dozen times that there's a 
problem and what the consequences are.  He just doesn't explain the 
problem that much.

What I don't get is that if the whole show was written in the wrong 
format, how come Cal and Danny didn't notice a lot earlier than when there 
were prayers for peace in the Mid West?  There are several ad breaks in 
the show, so these should have alerted them to the problem.
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Fenny

Buffy:  Tell Giles... tell Giles I figured it out. And... and I'm okay.