ATTN JMS: The University of JMS

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Subject: ATTN JMS: The University of JMS
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+  1: Jul 13, 1996: Craig Riekena <criekena at belllabs.com>
*  2: Jul 13, 1996: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)

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From: Craig Riekena <criekena at belllabs.com>
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Jms at B5 wrote:
> 
> Without giving anything spoilerish away....
> 
> When I wrote the script, I wanted there to be a snow globe not because of
> any allusion to Citizen Kane, which really hadn't occured to me, but
> because I knew I wanted something to smash, to shatter, to visually convey
> the emotional content of something that just happened.  A snow globe not
> only breaks, shatters, it splashes...nicely visual.

etc.  hate to clip it..it's sooo good but this goes elsewhere.
>  jms

Your participation in this group really fasinates me.  Like many others I am 
always sure to read you responses.  Particulaly those which will deal with 
writing/producing/creative styles.  You always are quite willing to expand quite 
dramatically on these topics.

It's like you are teaching a course on the process of 
writing/creation/television production.  For this I thank you endlessly.

My question is...have others in your position become aware of what you are doing 
and have they also taken steps to "teach" the masses the in/out/ups and downs of 
the world of television and writing for it?  Have your mini essay begun to 
appear in university courses?  If not yet then I am sure that they are some day 
destined to.  As you have said before, all of this is a giant experiment and we 
are all part of it.  How is the experiment going?

Thanks again for the extra effort and attention.
-- 
Craig A. Riekena
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
http://www.belllabs.com


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
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I think that the influx of writer/producers onto the nets cannot help but
further the process of helping people understand (and thus influence)
television.  Although a goodly portion of this is in the category of
"let's flog my new show/movie/whatever" some of it is also in the area of
discussions about how writing works.  There're plenty of others doing this
out there beyond me, and what's good about that is that you end up with a
multiplicity of views; no one of us has the single right answer to any of
this.  Any information we convey is anecdotal under the best of
conditions, and may be of more interest as curiosities than as How Things
Work, when taken alone; taken together, like blind men sizing up an
elephant, a picture of the whole slowly emerges.

I have heard that some of my stuff has ended up in term papers on the
media, and theses, and that's good in its limited way, given the
disclaimers above.  There's just so much bad mythology and misinformation
about how things work that the more light that can get spread, the better.


 jms



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