I’ve set the day aside for reading, which means I’ve read the screenplays for Bridesmaids, Source Code and a couple of Seinfeld episodes since lunch. I’m not entirely sure why I feel like my love for Seinfeld is a guilty pleasure, since it’s one of the best-written studio sitcoms out there, especially for ‘bottle episodes’ like The Chinese Restaurant, which I just finished off. What’s interesting is the length of the script for The Chinese Restaurant – 40 pages for a 20-minute episode – most of which is taken up by the dialogue, and how it’s weighted heavily towards the first act. What I want to do is compare this to a script from the first season, when I assume the characters’ voices weren’t quite down yet. I applied for a job as a ‘script developer’ the other day, but they told me that I’d need some professional experience to collect the £180-a-consultancy, so that’s one more awesome job I’m not remotely qualified for in this universe. I hate this stupid universe.

I’ve set the day aside for reading, which means I’ve read the screenplays for Bridesmaids, Source Code and a couple of Seinfeld episodes since lunch. I’m not entirely sure why I feel like my love for Seinfeld is a guilty pleasure, since it’s one of the best-written studio sitcoms out there, especially for ‘bottle episodes’ like The Chinese Restaurant, which I just finished off.

What’s interesting is the length of the script for The Chinese Restaurant – 40 pages for a 20-minute episode – most of which is taken up by the dialogue, and how it’s weighted heavily towards the first act. What I want to do is compare this to a script from the first season, when I assume the characters’ voices weren’t quite down yet.

I applied for a job as a ‘script developer’ the other day, but they told me that I’d need some professional experience to collect the £180-a-consultancy, so that’s one more awesome job I’m not remotely qualified for in this universe.

I hate this stupid universe.

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  1. davidwduffy said: It’s the same deal as me with teaching - it doesn’t matter whether you’re good at it or not, if you don’t have the piece of paper (see: degree) you’re never going to get a look-in. Such a bullshit elitist world we live in.
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