Those shows tend to also have multiple seasons, which means there is some ability for crew to say, “Hey, I now have a life where I work on this show, which will work steadily for the next X amount of years.” If the tax credit is chopped up among a lot of one shot things, you lose that sense of stability, because the point of this all is, “Hey, how do we provide a living to people, an actual manageable living?” What is the present-tense need of the scene that brings up this idea so it feels natural to the moment that you’re in and, of course, seeds us for later on, that it feels like, “Oh, of course, the characters are having this discussion. It might be a one-page brief of what this is, what the concept is, but then they’re going to have a lot of storyboards, setups, a listing of things for these are the moments that we’re shooting that become the production plan for everybody else, the equivalent of the script that they would use for breakdown, for scheduling, for wardrobe.
Author: Drew Marquardt
Published at: 2025-07-23 21:49:34
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