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The Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera
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The Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera

by Amy DeLouise
April 2016
Beginner
228 pages
4h 26m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 9

BEYOND THE SOUNDBITE

The Dance of the Interview

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Andy Collins

ONE OF MY FAVORITE interviews to conduct was with Jeff Astrof, a comedy writer in Los Angeles. The interview was a challenge in the sense that as a TV show writer, Jeff’s got a pretty good handle on narrative structure and characters, so he knew more going in than many folks. By the time we’d exchanged a few emails and done a phone pre-interview, I’m sure he had a pretty good sense of the story lines I might pursue. As a former stand-up comic, he’s also used to “performing” a story—albeit in front of a live audience, not one person with a camera. Knowing that my end-product ...

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