Writing for the Audience

"What the hell do they know"

1. Writing to be read not to be seen; blowing the bubbles
2. Instant Story; Taking the story elements and creating something.
3. Characterisation; Active characters, intresting situations.
4. Treatments/Outline/Pitch/Premise; should be first oppotunity to engage on audience
5. Interviewing for character. Open and Closed questions
6. Story Structure. Exposition, Complications, Resolution
7. Show me, Don't tell me; Characters defined through actions

When do we let audience in?
We seek to control information

Detectives show as example;
COLUMBO; Audience knows and 'we' know that columbo knows so it becomes about how he knows. He explains at the end.
Agatha Christie/ Hercule Poirot; Audience doesn't know we 'know' that aggie and poirot know. They reveal at the end how they know.
CHINATOWN (GRITTES)/USUAL SUSPECT; Audience and Grittes find out at the same time. Reveals as surprise.
CSI; Audience and detective find out at the same time as the case builds fact by fact.