Collaboration: Real World Writers
Akua Duku Anokye
In the industrial world, in the corporate world, people are
collaborating more and more. You have groups working on projects and they
produce these projects and each of them share.
Janet Turner
The shift that I'm on there's Five officers. We operate under
what is called the team concept…so we're considered a team… As far as report
writing, you bet. Most of the time we write it, we each write our own report
because we don't want to influence each other as, "hey, did… were there
of these?" You need to think about what you saw and not get that from someone
else. So it's not collaboration that way but we do check with each other
saying, "Hey are you gunna cover this in the report,
or…?" Because sometimes you don't need both officers to cover
everything, so there's a lot of collaboration like when you have a…an
accident…drunk driving accident. One officer will take the accident portion, one officer will take the arrest for driving under
the influence.
Greg Liggins
When we walk into the news meeting in the afternoon it's a
collaborative effort to come up with the evening stories. If I'm not shooting a
story as well as reporting it then I don't have to really worry about taking
the pictures. But I can write my story, give all the information to the editor, and then the editor can
work on the story. And that's an hour I have to make more telephone calls or go
talk to more people to find out if there's any new information. If I was
actually physically editing the story, I wouldn't have time to do that. So
sometimes… you just get better stories because you have more time and you can
focus on fewer things.
Dorothy Wong
Putting together, a sketch like Spishak is definitely a team effort. It's definitely a collaboration all the way from,
it does start with, you know, somebody comes up with the idea, all the input
happens from the actors, the writers, the producers, occasionally I'll say,
"Hey, do you want a close up of that?," "Which way should Pat be looking?," things
like that. but definitely there's a lot of input all
the way from the control room to the floor, even sometimes you know, some of
our camera people might have some great ideas.
Chris Lowe
Collaborative writing in science is very common and it happens
a lot. It's not something that you're necessarily trained to do. Basically
we're trained to write as individuals and I think that's important. It's
important to kind of develop your own style first. But once you reach a certain
level in your science career, you have to learn to write collaboratively. And
that's sharing ideas and putting it together so that all parties are satisfied
with a concept that you're trying to portray. And that can be difficult,
especially if you're working with people at different levels of their career.
There's kind of a hierarchy that occurs. But the idea is that you can still
feel comfortable with what you've written and everybody feels as though that
the text that you've put together conveys the same message that everybody had
originally envisioned.
Peter Farrelly
When I'm writing a screenplay, I find it much easier to
collaborate than to write alone. In fact I tried to write a screenplay alone
one time when I was on vacation. I had a very hard time, particularly for
comedy, because, as my brother put it, he says, "Well if you come up with a joke
in your head you don't laugh. You don't…you think ooh oh, maybe that's
amusing."
Bobby Farrelly
Try to get in there, 'cause… the
second… she goes with him… it's like, hmm.
P Farrelly
Yeah, that's a great reveal of like, he's like [mumbles in character].
B Farrelly
Well I don't know if you bring it up there, but I just think
he'd be like…
P Farelly
You gotta know why he's doing it,
'cause that's the funny part.
P Farrelly
If there's another guy there and you come up with a joke and
you say, "How 'bout this?" and you get a rise out of him like he's laughing and
or he says something to make it better and now you laugh…suddenly you're
hearing the laughs…