{"id":295,"date":"2009-02-15T23:23:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T23:17:57","slug":"diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re meeting with someone and your relationship soured not that long ago but you need to remain civil. You have two options: to meet with them on your own, or with your manager.<\/p>\n<p>You do a quick previz:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SCENARIO A: SOLO<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"scrippet\">\n<p class=\"sceneheader\">INT. MALL &#8211; MORNING<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">Our WRITER meets with OTHER PARTY and, after confirmation of certain details, another meeting is proposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">OTHER PARTY<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Sweet. How about we meet at your place?<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">WRITER<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">You&#8217;re not welcome at my place and if you turn up I&#8217;ll give you a Cuban necktie and, once you&#8217;ve bled out, bury you in the garden, plant a lemon tree over you, and piss on your grave every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SCENARIO B: TANDEM<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"scrippet\">\n<p class=\"sceneheader\">INT. MALL &#8211; MORNING<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">Our WRITER and his MANAGER meet with OTHER PARTY and, after confirmation of certain details, another meeting is proposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">OTHER PARTY<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Sweet. How about we meet at your place?<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">MANAGER<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">We&#8217;d rather meet you on Neutral Ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">OTHER PARTY<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Oh &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">Other Party looks at the Writer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">WRITER<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Yeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">OTHER PARTY<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Okay. Sure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;S a no-brainer, innit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re meeting with someone and your relationship soured not that long ago but you need to remain civil. You have two options: to meet with them on your own, or with your manager. You do a quick previz: SCENARIO A: SOLO INT. MALL &#8211; MORNING Our WRITER meets with OTHER PARTY and, after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/diplomacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Diplomacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}