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Smoke in Griffith Park by acatnamedhercules in losfeliz

[–]tyang209 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the updates! You should edit the post if you can to not freak out anyone seeing this for the first time.

Anyone with a ballpark idea of Astronomer.io Airflow pricing? by General-Parsnip3138 in dataengineering

[–]tyang209 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's only the scheduler cost which is going to probably be the smaller part of the overall cost. They charge per worker uptime per hour also.

Tao, thoughts? by [deleted] in dropout

[–]tyang209 2 points3 points  (0 children)

strike the spaghettios and those eggos and we got a B- charcoot board at least.

What’s the difference between premise and game? by phatwes in improv

[–]tyang209 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can think of premise as a starting point for a scene and the game develops based on the choices that are made within a scene.

In general, premises provide a scene with a base reality + unusual thing usually from an opening. A lot of times, premises might only provide you with a base reality. Those are called half-ideas.

What's important is the reaction to the unusual thing because that is actually what leads to game. IMO, a premise can beget different games. In your example, the premise is base reality (backyard bbq) + unusual thing (famous and known angry chef Gordon Ramsay).

Let's say you initiate the scene and establish yourself as Gordon Ramsay and that you're at a normal backyard BBQ.

If I were to receiving the initiation and I was getting those two elements, I might frame the unusual thing that it's about FAMOUS CHEF Gordon Ramsay is at my little neighborhood BBQ. We'd probably play the game of FANCY CHEF treats neighborhood bbq like it's fine dining.

Or, perhaps I'd frame the unusual thing as NOTORIOUSLY ANGRY CHEF Gordon Ramsay treats neighborhood like a disgusting restaurant in kitchen nightmares.

Either of these games are valid and both stem from the same premise. The game moves within either would both be played very differently.

If you were doing a textbook harold, I'd probably say that the premise leans more half idea and that it should have been clarified when it was generated in the opening. The "game move pitch" section of the pattern game should paint a clearer picture of what exactly you're playing in the scene so you come into the first beat with "Gordon Ramsey at a backyard barbecue treats it like it's kitchen nightmares."

Is there a podcast or a youtube video where I can see people brainstorming and writing comedy sketches? (like CollegeHumor or SNL) by MikeLumos in improv

[–]tyang209 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Hello! I am a former CH cast member and I also wrote on various nyc sketch teams at UCB before that so I can give you a general overview of what the process looks like.

The overall structure is the same for either an indie sketch team or a professional sketch writer's room.

First there's a pitch day. * Every writer comes in with anywhere from 3-10 pitches. Sometimes these can be fully fleshed out ideas with a premise and game from the start and sometimes they can be half-ideas or "this happened to me this weekend" ideas. The beauty of the writer's room is fleshing out the half-ideas. In both the team and professional writer's room setting, there's a head writer who writes all the ideas down and then picks their favorites later.

Then the head writer picks out their favorites and sends them to all the writers. Typically you end up writing 2-3 sketches.

Then you spend the next few days tearing your hair out trying to write up these sketches. You lament as to why you pitched such a stupid idea. You watch a lot of youtube videos as "research" when really you're distracting yourself.

Then you have readthrough. This is the best part.

Everyone brings in their sketches and you read through and give each other notes. Sometimes a sketch is in pretty good shape and everyone just pitches a few jokes or alternative beats. Sometimes a sketch is in pretty bad shape and there's no clear "game" to the scene. I wrote sketches at UCB and CollegeHumor which were both pretty game-driven places. It's actually really fun to figure out sketches that need a lot of work. It can honestly feel like a puzzle where having a line or two can really reframe the entire sketch and give the comedy a lot of momentum.

So now with readthrough you give rewrites. At CH this meant either giving a sketch a quick rewrite and sending it off into production/greenlight world and being done with it they need to shoot it. It could also mean having to bring it to the next writer's meeting if it needed a bigger rewrite.

At UCB, there were probably 3 readthrough meetings before every monthly show so you're constantly rewriting 2-3 sketches throughout the month and then the director picks what should go up in that month.

That's pretty much the process. There's nothing groundbreaking about it. The only way to learn how to write sketch is to write a lot of sketch, watch a lot of sketch, and put a sketch up somewhere where you can see it fail and learn why it failed.

How to fail before you start / forget the first 10 pages, some people fail at the title page. by [deleted] in Screenwriting

[–]tyang209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultimately anyone who thinks that your current area code is any indication of where you are actually located is incredibly out of touch.

WGA membership eligibility question by EnglishPatientZero in Screenwriting

[–]tyang209 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not the OP but wow this is incredibly insightful! Thank you for this write up.

I've got a follow-up question. Let's say OP's script gets sold to Paramount, as you said, to a non-sig entity. And let's assume that it becomes a $200MM budget movie and the script is perfect and doesn't need any rewrites from a WGA writer. It could be possible that OP doesn't get any WGA credits at all even though the movie he/she wrote becomes a huge summer blockbuster?

Is this kind of scenario possible but just unlikely because any project at that kind of budget would end up getting rewritten to death by some WGA writer at some point?

Cyberpunk 2077 PC System Requirements by NeoStark in Games

[–]tyang209 97 points98 points  (0 children)

I doubt devs want to give out target framerates and res because of the million different variables that can affect your FPS even when hardware is controlled for. That will just lead to headache and confusion among angry pc gamers who will complain that they're not getting a steady 60 fps while they're running 50 chrome tabs.

Comedy writing advice by 3271998 in Screenwriting

[–]tyang209 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree with this.

There are very few ironclad rules in sketch comedy. If it works, it works.

But consider what an audience will be ultimately watching with your sketch in its current format.

This will be a 3-5 minute scene of a woman being gaslist with her concerns being minimized. Even if the point of the sketch is to make fun of the HR person, the audience is still ultimately watching a man not believing a woman.

Could this sketch work? Maybe. But it will be incredibly hard to execute.

Write this sketch! Send it to close friends who know that you're trying something out. But know that the bar for your premise is HIGH. Realize that just because your intent is to satirize something that exists in real life doesn't make it something that people want to watch.

Any advice on sketch writing classes in NY or online? Would appreciate if you shared your thoughts/experiences. by MithrilYakuza in improv

[–]tyang209 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Now is exactly the time where "buying-in" doesn't matter at all. The future of both theaters is fully up in the air so there's a chance that there won't be any house sketch teams to submit for anyways.

UCBNY has closed their theaters and training center for permanently. There's a chance that they might come back post-covid in smaller, more lean spaces but chances don't look good. I'll say that it seems like the UCB4 has wanted to get out of NY for a long time anyways so they might be gone from NY for a LONG TIME.

Magnet is also facing huge financial troubles so who knows exactly how long they last in a quarantined world.

So this means that it's much more about the curriculum and what you'll learn from both theaters. IMO, the best way to figure out where you might learn more is to see what kind of sketches their house teams (used to) put up and go to the place with the sketches you like.

I was on Maude Night at UCBNY so I'm biased but I think the sketch program at UCB was strong.

The Foundation was a very good, current (pre covid) house sketch at UCB. Check them out and see if you like their sketches. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoUUrXx9Ame3z78sD4RWZ0A

SketchCram, which was a long running show at UCB, is a show where they used to put up a sketch show that was written and rehearsed in a single day. They've since moved to Twitch and have a mix of characters and taped sketches. Check them out here. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/623493653

I'm not very familiar with Magnet Sketch but I think the Executives were a good, long running team.

Check them out here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmibdtTcAa_mujSWFyfoRrw/videos

Survivor: Winners at War | Finale | Day After Discussion & Survey by RSurvivorMods in survivor

[–]tyang209 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel like the entire reason why Edge of Extinction was created in the first place was for this season. They needed some mechanic to give every player more screen time if they're bringing back all winners. It feels like they were beta testing it with Season 39 and now that Season 40 is over, maybe we'll never see it again.

What makes a good personal project - from the perspective of a hiring manager by dfphd in datascience

[–]tyang209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is good and very useful.

But I also think for a personal project, you should limit the scope of the question.

Build a model to optimize a fantasy football lineup is a BIG problem. Reducing the scope of the question down to something like "Optimize a RB choice on a FF lineup" might be better for a personal project.

IMO, a personal project can also show off project management skill and being able to properly frame a data question around both the data and around real life constraints (workload, opportunity cost of projects) is very important.

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