BBC writers room

BBC writers room:

What do they do: Responsive, proactive and an open door to writers, BBC writersoom is always looking at new ways to find and champion talent for all BBC platforms.

We know how hard it is to be a writer and we believe in finding ways to inspire and inform you, to keep you across changes, giving you access to commissioners and production departments but most importantly to the skills and and experience of established writers.

Aims/ objectives: We are not here for the short term, we understand how long it can take for a writer to find that first and second commission, but if we think you have talent then we will do everything in our power to support and develop you for the long term

 

 TV listing:

 

As you can see there is new tricks and the poison tree on at the same time and also, not drama related but still important, there is also never mind the buzzcocks and 8 out of 10 cats on at the same time.

Scripts and dramas:

The secret of Crickley hall:

 

 

 

 

New tricks:

 

Drama viewing figures:

Silent witness questions:

In the opening scene of this episode called choices we see Modest, the nightclub owner, in the car with his fiancé Helen to whom he has recently become engaged to. They both then step out of the car, Modest goes one way and Helen goes to talk to Modest’s sister Simone outside the nightclub. A car then drives by and starts to shoot a sub machine gun at the club from one of the windows. Everyone outside the nightclub panics and tries to get down but inevitably people are killed. A man is shot in the back as he attempts to run away and Helen is shot and killed which we find out later on was actually an accidental shot fired from Modest as he pulls his own gun out to return fire he puts too much pressure on the trigger, the bullet hits the floor, ricochets and kills Helen.

For this programme I personally feel that, based on the fact it is a drama, it primarily targets middle class women aged between 35 and 55 but due to the crime thriller element of this programme is drags the primary genre more towards the middle allowing men to enjoy it just as much as women. As a secondary audience I would think that it would be for the elder age ground for around 55-70. The reason that I have chosen an older age group as the secondary audience as oppose to the younger age group is because I feel that few teenagers or young adults would take time out to regularly watch and follow the episodes and therefore this programme should really be aimed at the middle aged/ older audience.

In this episode I really did enjoy the fact that as they try to solve the crime they uncover more and more information which takes the team on different routes like the branches of a tree unfolding and then that information allowing them to solve the crime by solving other smaller puzzles along the way. I would try to include a similar story line such as this in my own screenplay as it engages the audience and keeps their interest.

The one thing I disliked about the episode is how clunky and unsatisfying the dialogue was. I’m not sure as to whether this was down to the physical scripting of the episode or if it was down to the delivery of the lines but I didn’t believe the dialogue at all and this took away from the characters and stopped me from enjoying the programme as well as I could. I would definitely avoid awkward dialogue in my own screenplay as it distracts the audience and also lets the storyline down.

Edge of Darkness questions:

In the opening scene we see a train go past in the middle of the night with some sort of important containers on, most probably critical to the storyline later on. We then see three people talking in an almost empty room with many chairs laid out. The three men then leave the room, get in separate cars and are driven away by police officers so it’s clear that these three men are also policemen. We then see Emma Craven in a room of people which seem to be some sort of group. The meeting then ends and Emma is picked up by her dad, Ronald Craven. They arrive home and get out of the car to go indoors where they are met by an armed man who says “Craven bastard” he then aims a gun but Emma steps forward and shouts “don’t” she is then shot, Ronald then holds Emma as she is dying and in her final breath says “don’t tell”.

The primary audience for this programme would probably be males and females aged between 30-50. This is because this programme needs an audience