{"id":394,"date":"2008-06-07T04:21:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/394"},"modified":"2008-06-07T04:21:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T09:21:22","slug":"cut-print-thats-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/394","title":{"rendered":"Cut! Print! That&#039;s a Wrap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=452\">The science of scriptwriting<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McKee examines story-telling like a biologist dissecting a rat. But after taking it apart, he explains how to build a story yourself using rules that wouldn\u2019t look out of place in a computer programming text book.<br \/>\n[. . .]<br \/>\nUsing McKee\u2019s rules they compare the script of the film Casablanca, a classic pre-McKee movie, with scripts of six episodes of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation), a classic post-Mckee production, and find numerous similarities.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s hardly surprising since McKee learnt his trade analysing films such as Casablanca, so anything written using his rules should have these similarities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also note that one of the producers for CSI has a PhD in applied physics.  Chicken?  Egg?  Common cause?<\/p>\n<p>(Not to name drop, but I went to high school with this person, and actually helped, in some small way, with the first script he wrote)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science of scriptwriting McKee examines story-telling like a biologist dissecting a rat. But after taking it apart, he explains how to build a story yourself using rules that wouldn\u2019t look out of place in a computer programming text book. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,46,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-science-general","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}