Posted Sep 26, 07 08:23 PM
Thank you all
Thank you for your support and for all your smart questions. After working for 7 straight months, my wife is waiting for me at the premiere party and I'm going to go join her!
LIVE BLOG
Watch this show online?
Yes absolutely! Starting tomorrow at NBC.com
For Sean: How many writers are on staff?
We have about 6 writers on staff. I would say I've written about 40% of the episodes and the other writers each take a script. We break the stories together in the room and decide larger storylines that will run over more then one episode. The episodesI don't write directly, the other writers take that, but there comes a point where all scripts come to me and I take over... I put Charlie Crews into it. We split it up that way.
Is Los Angeles a character?
Absolutely. Los Angeles, the city itself, is so different than the city Crews left years ago, and I wanted it set in a city of sunshine. Charlie has had 12 years in a dark box, and I wanted the show to be full of life. I worked in NY for years, I shot a pilot there and wanted this to be different. You can tell dark stories in the sunshine, and that's what I wanted to do.
Writer - Dream Projects?
I'm on it, truthfully, I've been writing for 20 years and I found the character who is my dream, I'm on it.
Writing an Episode
From start to finish writing an episode takes a month. And then to shoot it takes, well, we prep for 8 days then we shoot for 8 days. We are on stage 4 of those days at the Universal lot and then on location the other 4.
What makes Life different from other police shows?
Charlie Crews. I love straight up police procedurals, about the fibers and the technology, but this show for me is about wish fulfillment. I wish I could be the person that he is... having gone through something unimaginable, but having conquered it... have been made better by it instead of bitter by it. That for me is the character I want to write.
Rand's Playlist
I have 7,000 songs and I hit shuffle!
I listen to a lot of different types.
Folk, jazz, but I'm all over the place really.
Music in the show
We have a music supervisor named Liza Richardson, but I also write the music and when I imagine scenes and situations I have a cue in my head. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but I do have an active role in music for the show.
For a big scene, I usually have the song in my head early on. When the scene starts coming together, I can cut it in and see if it works... then we have to see if we can actually afford it.
Furniture for Charlie?
At some point he will, slowly buy furniture (and a new car). He's convinced that he needs to start simply, build his life one piece at a time.
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