paint the sky with stars

My mother says I should write about my screenwriting course more because my journal has been boring otherwise. Thanks for the support, Mom.

The class has been going well so far. It does suffer a bit from the fact that a) it's taught by someone who isn't a teacher professionally and b) it's the first time it's been taught at all. But we are learning some good stuff about how scripts work. Last night we watched two episodes of The Office as we learned more about how a sitcom script is put together. Apparently tags are going out of fashion (a tag is the last scene of an episode that often plays during the credits). Someone should tell the HIMYM writers this since most episodes of that show do have one (though not all).

I've been working a bit on my idea for the series bible project we have to hand-in at the end. I've already scrapped my initial idea, hurrah! I think idea two is a bit better for the project though. The old adage about writing that says you need to know the rules before you are allowed to break them definitely applies here.

Just got back from work today and I'm excited to have an evening off. I need to catch up on some television watching, mostly with Glee, Grey's, and Flashforward. Also Dollhouse premieres tonight, yay Whedon! Smallville does as well but it doesn't quite deserve a yay, really.

And probably some more Lost as well because I only have a few episodes left in season two...so perhaps I should start the download on season three!

Oooo, I do have an appropriate icon for talking about Dollhouse. Yay Tahmoh! Whose name I can ALMOST pronounce now.

So, just watched the premiere of Dollhouse. It's interesting. So far it doesn't have the humor that Joss Whedon is generally known for (not great one-liners, though the EJO reference was hilarious!) but I'm hoping that will come later. I guess my original opinion about it still stands: if it wasn't for Joss and others I want to see (like Tahmoh), I probably wouldn't be watching it, because the premise is interesting but not exciting to me.

However it is just getting started and I was lukewarm about Firefly's beginning too, so great things could still be coming.

Now to go get some groceries to last me until Saturday (I want to try and keep the main grocery outing for the weekend).