How they Wrote The Office - 10 Screenwriting Tips from the Best Sitcom ever written
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10 Screenplay tips from Greg Daniels, Mindy Kaling, Michael Schur, BJ Novak
The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom television series that depicts the everyday work lives of office employees. Based on the 2001-2003 BBC series of the same name, it was adapted for American television by Greg Daniels.
The Office originally featured Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, and B. J. Novak as the main cast.
The Office received significant acclaim from television critics as the show's characters, content, structure, and tone diverged considerably from the British version. It won four Primetime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Comedy Series.
In 2016, Rolling Stone named The Office one of the 100 greatest television shows of all time.
01 - Picking the perfect writing room staff is similar to picking a baseball team; you need each person to be good at a different element of the screenwriting process.
02 - There is a hierarchy in the writing room. For example, the showrunner will get to choose the overriding arcs of the season, and the staff writer will pitch individual jokes and improve the drafts.
03 - It’s the job of the showrunner to try and make sure that everyone feels safe in the writer's room. However, it’s a balance, because if they feel too safe, they just talk and talk and talk and no work gets done.
04 - Start writing your season with all the writers in the room coming up with hundreds of ‘what if’ scenarios. Make sure nothing is off-limits and kick around ideas until something usable comes around.
05 - After someone has written the main a-story of the episode, all writers will gather in the room and break it down and add the b-story as well as individual jokes and bits.
06 - When adapting a tv show, you need to first understand what you are adapting - you have to take the show apart like a clock, and then convert it to the situation in which the new show will be, whether it will be set in a new country or a different time etc.
07 - Read hundreds of spec scripts for episodes and then meet with some of your favorite writers in person to see if you would want to spend the rest of the season with them.
08 - Setting up a recurring joke on the show can go from being a funny character catchphrase to being paid off as a very emotional moment when used in the right context.
09 - Allow actors to contribute to the writing process by giving them a seed of what a certain scene is about and letting them improvise it, but always have a cemented backup script everyone can follow if they don’t feel inspired to improvise.
10 - Writing a show is a substantial task so even if one person is heading the writing of an episode, everyone in the writing room contributes to making the episode as good as it can be.
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Would be interesting to see more screenwriting advice for TV. I think filmmakers need to take TV more seriously as something to learn technique from. Especially for structure.
Another awesome video!! Please please do MODERN FAMILY!!!!
I loved it before even watching it ! 😊
Loved your comment before even reading it! 😉
This is gold, should has lots more of views!❤
I learned a lot, please do modern family next.
Great idea ✅🙌
Loved num 4 a lot 👏🤩😎✨👌
Thanks 👏👏🥰
I didn't see the link to submit a screenplay.
Sorry, link to submit your Tv Pilot Script was added in description below the video. Here’s the link again 👇 writers.coverfly.com/competitions/view/outstanding-screenplays-tv-pilot 👈
@@OutstandingScreenplays Thanks for the link !
It'd be amazing if you could link to the sources so we could watch them in full 😀
I'm wondering how they write TV show screenplay?
What structure they use ?
Do they use hero's journey or save the cat?
Is it possible to do one episode on Breaking Bad?
@4:50 "if someone, who is important, pitches something that makes everyone laugh - you put it in the script" No wonder the show got progessively worse.... #YourWaq
i didn't get that
I wonder if the talkative Simpson’s writer he mentioned was Conan.
I doubt it somehow
That's my first thought but Conan was not let go pretty quick, Conan left to do the Tonight Show. I bet Conan was talkative in the room but I'm sure know he was making everyone laugh not like the guy who was just talkative that Greg Daniels was talking about.
A show runners job is to make everyone feel safe? Really? I thought it was their job to make the script even funnier, with the amount of money they get paid . used to be the job, not - "safety" - cuz we all know how dangerous telling jokes in a room with other comedy writers armed with lap tops and ideas can be.
This should be Ricky gervais and Stephen merchant talking I mean it’s not like they wrote the original script ffs🤦♂️
Jeez Mindy Kahling sounds bitter
Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant wrote the office, this is just an adapted version.
they stole it from the original because you yanks can't do anything original
Not the best! Seinfeld is