"I always wanted a daughter."

Los Angeles, "Modern Family" filming site.

"Put her a beautiful little dress, make her hair, manicure, make up..."

The plot has been filmed in the third episode of the script.

"Tell me a little secret. When Manny was one year old, I dressed her up like a girl and told everyone that he was my daughter, hahaha."

In front of the camera, Gloria Prichet made an excited expression, and then immediately restrained his explanation.

"But, only a few times."

"I don't want him to bother with his gender. When he saw the photos of his childhood, I told him that he was his dead twin sister."

Jay Pritchette: “…”

...

After the shooting of the previous few episodes, it was done.

Several actors in the play "Modern Family" have obviously entered the state.

It is well integrated into the narrative style of the TV series in the form of "pseudo documentary". They show as natural as possible in front of the camera, ignoring or deliberately ignoring the cameras around them to meet the shooting style requirements of "pseudo documentary".

At the crew, everyone was busy working.

"Modern Family" has been scheduled to premiere in ABC's September fall schedule and will be released as the premiere drama at 8 o'clock.

Such a time schedule is not very good, but it basically meets the specifications of a new drama, and at least it has not been placed in the death period of ABC at 10 o'clock.

There are slight differences in the statement about the death table, but there are basically some conventional periods, among which ten o'clock is the common unpopular period for major TV stations. Once the TV series is placed in this period for broadcast, the crew will basically be ready to be cut.

Of course, this statement is not absolute. For example, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, when "Grey's Anatomy", it was originally aired, it was once one of the death schedules of ABC. However, the drama still changed the result with its excellent plot and became a popular TV series today.

"Screenwriter Allen, about the fourth episode script..."

With the content of the new episode script in his hand, the person responsible for creating the play came to Zhao Yuan.

After a long period of development and exploration, the creation process of American dramas has already come with a set of fixed templates.

Unlike movie scripts, they often rely solely on the process of creating individual or a small number of screenwriters. Because of the large scale of American dramas, as the plot develops in depth, the creation of scripts no longer depends on one person alone, but a group of people collectively creates the content of the series.

The same is true for the script creation process of "Modern Family".

The script creator Zhao Yuan outlines the general framework, then assigns the single-level tasks to his screenwriters, and summarizes and polishes them, analyzes the characters' personalities, and finally decides the content of the latest drama through discussion and meetings.

Such a script creation model not only requires consideration of maintaining the plot level, but also the promotion and efforts of Hollywood screenwriters unions are indispensable.

After all, TV stations decide to order renewals every year.

Without this method, how can the screenwriter union ensure that most of its members get the right to work?

In Hollywood, not every screenwriter is talented.

For example, Zhao Yuan originally relied on designing some vulgar joke plots in third-rate scene dramas to earn cheap royalties and maintain a basic life.

And this is the fact, and it is also the real life of Hollywood's most low-level screenwriters.

Of course, all this is a past tense.

Today, Zhao Yuan is no longer the poor and unknown screenwriter he used to be.

He made his own fame in Hollywood and became the core creator of "Modern Family", holding the power of life and death in the play.

And this is just a change in his apparent identity.

“Not dramatic enough.”

After glanced over the script in the hand of the screenwriter of the episode, Zhao Yuan thought for a while and put forward his own opinions.

"The conflict between Di and Gloria should be even more undercurrent. They both died of each other in their hearts, but on the surface they still had to pretend to be harmonious. I hope this situation will continue until the end of this episode, and then quarrel, or even start to explode, creating a plot reversal effect..."

Dee is the mother of Mitchell and Claire in the script of "Modern Family", and Jay's original wife. Her appearance will create enough explosive points and conflicts for the show.

"I get it, screenwriter Allen."

He nodded and recorded all the changes proposed by Zhao Yuan about the plot of the new episode.

Although the screenwriter responsible for the creation of this episode is far superior to Zhao Yuan in terms of grade and screenwriter experience, Hollywood has always been the stage for winners.

If he is unwilling to take over the job, there are a lot of screenwriters behind him, waiting to join the screenwriter team.

He recorded several parts that need to be modified and adjusted in the new episode. The screenwriter of the episode looked at Zhao Yuan in front of him, and after hesitating for a moment, he chose to speak to him.

"Speaking of this, Screenwriter Allen, have you heard about the union recently?"

"Screenwriters' Union?"

Hearing the words from the screenwriter of the episode, Zhao Yuan couldn't help but express a puzzled expression on his face.

In Hollywood, both actors and screenwriters have their own union.

Zhao Yuan's predecessor was a member of the Screenwriter's Union.

However, he had no fame in the entire union at the beginning and belonged to an unknown low-level character.

"Is something wrong with the union?"

"I heard that it was because of the negotiations of the Basic Agreement, and the union has been quarreling with the producers. The entire negotiation process was not going smoothly, and there was even a vague plan within the union that it was about to break down."

When talking about this, the screenwriter who was in charge of the episode had a little worried expression on his face.

Once the negotiations between the screenwriters union and the producers break down, it will not have much impact on famous screenwriters like Zhao Yuan, who are now famous, but it will be a major blow to middle-level screenwriters like them.

Since they have chosen to join the screenwriter union and enjoy the convenience, welfare and work support that the union has won, they must stand on the same standpoint as the union.

"Perhaps, this is just news released by the union to win more bargaining chips. The real situation may not be so bad."

On the surface, Zhao Yuan comforted the screenwriter who was responsible for the episode "Modern Family".

But in fact, he knew very well that this time the screenwriter's union's decision would exceed the expectations of many people paying attention to this negotiation, and even the producers.

Sure enough, a few days later.

The American Screenwriters Union made an announcement that negotiations with the producers broke down.

The union will hold its first strike in nearly 20 years, and all union members must participate in the strike.

Any member who ignores this strike decision and continues to participate in the work of movies and TV series will be severely punished by the trade union.
Chapter completed!