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from: David E. Powell
date: 2011-01-10 20:25:32
subject: Re: A silly TV movie writing question....

On Jan 10, 10:50 pm, Duggy  wrote:
> On Jan 11, 12:19 pm, "David E. Powell"

> wrote:
>
> > The Australia thing.. hm, I thought getting the six act structure down
> > would be hair pulling for a writer!
>
> There's no structure about it.  "Hmm, there's a scene change that we
> can split there, so lets add an ad break" "That means there's not much
> time until the actual ad break" "You're right.  We'll ignore that ad
> break and continue the show."
>
> So when you right to build to an ad break... it's not coinciding with
> the actual ad breaks here...
I just wonder if all acts have to be of equal length? It seems
Australia just hodgepodges in their own. In US TV do the Telefilms
have to have acts of exactly equal length? Or do they fidge a bit here
or there?
I have to thank everyone for the help here. :)
> Plus they had to remove content from some shows to fit in ads.
> Especially The Simpsons.
That's... ugh.
> ===
> = DUG.
> ===
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