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Posted by Chris Ghoti (U10794176) on Thursday, 20th October 2011
Several of us would be interested to know who writes these, and at what point in the creative process they are written. It has been suggested that they are written by whichever script-writer wrote the episode, but that makes it hard to explain the times on which they say something that did not happen in the broadcast episode -- as for example the synopsis for 3rd October 2010, which stated that Shula and Jill chatted in the church in Bath, whereas what was broadcast was them chatting in the Jane Austen garden, and the place was identified by them as that garden.
So are the synopses what it is recomended ought to be in a given episode, the thing from which the scriptwriter works? If so, why are they not altered when the script deviates from them? Are they written before, or after, the completion of the script; before, or after, the recording of that script?
If they are demonstrably incorrect, as on that occasion, are they ever amended so that they are a more true account of what was broadast? How would their needing to be changed be pointed out?
I am fairly sure that somebody at some point told us they were written by the day's scriptwriter, but can't remember who said this.
Please can you find these things out for us, Ms Tayler? (well, the last one isn't important...)
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Posted by Lady Macbeϯh - not without mustard (U550479) on Saturday, 22nd October 2011
I rather think Mr Keri writes them. Tayler is i/c messagboards, but Keri is i/c the site.
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If he does, I wish he were given the scripts to read before he does so. I assume that at present they cannot be written using the scripts.
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The last time this Q was asked we were told that the sw produces a synopsis of each epi as part of the week's sw-ing. They are or were therefore produced before the recording.
It's not surprising therefore that the synopsis may diverge from the actual epi because you have 2 extra layers of input on top of the script - the actors' acting and the director's vision of the action (and sometimes cuts to the text). That's why what we hear can be so different from what the sws and editor (who approves the scripts and the summaries presumably) intended at the time of writing.
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That's what I remember too, Cath/
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Thank you for the information...
That really doesn't explain why it is not possible to review or change them before they are published, if (as does seem to be the case on a few occasions) they are rendered actively inaccurate as regards what is to be broadcast.
I think that if that is the process, it ought not to be beyond the wit of person to arrange for someone who was in onthe recording (an editor, perhaps? the producer?) to have a quick look through them during the time between the recording of the broadcast and the publication of the synopsis, and check them for inaccuracy. I doubt that any of them is published on the day of reocrding.
Hey, they could even be made available at the recording and be amended if the content of the episode was changed at that time! There's an idea!
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Posted by Tayler Cresswell - Host (U14232848) on Sunday, 23rd October 2011
Hi all
I'm pretty sure that the process hasn't changed. I don't think that it's always the same scriptwriter producing the synopses for the week they write, but I'll check.
Tayler
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Thank you, Ms Tayler.
If the person who wrote the script also writes the synopsis, why would something like "They have a chat in church" remain in the synopsis when the scene is clearly written to include the information that they are having their chat in a garden after the church service is over?
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Posted by Tayler Cresswell - Host (U14232848) on Tuesday, 25th October 2011
Hi Chris
The script writer isn't always the person that writes the synopsis.
Errors in the synopses are just human errors, which obviously the team try to avoid. They've asked that if anyone does notice anything in the future, then please let them know (ie a post here in Notes & Queries) and they'll do their best to correct it.
Thanks
Tayler
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That's terrific, Ms Tayler! Couldn't easily be better. Please thank them for me. I hate it when inaccuracy gets into the public record and can never be amended.
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