<<Falling>> Thoughts

 Posted on 11/29/1996 by J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644@compuserve.com> to CIS


Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
> In writing your scripts, do you have a conversation with each
> character and he/she tells you what's happening; or do you see
> the action the character is in from their point of view; or do
> you see the action much as the camera sees it from a third person
> point of view, but focusing on that character?

I see the episode in my mind the same way it's seen by viewers.
I watch it from the camera's point of view. It's just once in a while,
as I'm watching it, that one of the characters will lean into camera,
bang on the side of it, and say "Listen, shmuck, you're not doing this
right."

jms