The first interview is with ‘Office’ writer Michael Shur. Here’s a little snippet…
VF Daily: Can you tell me a little about how the writing process on The Office works?
Michael Schur: We all come in in the morning, and we just toss stuff out. If we hit a wall or something, and it doesn’t seem to be progressing, we’ll switch to some other idea. But it’s really just all the writers sitting around on some pretty uncomfortable fake leather couches for hours and hours and hours, just tossing out ideas about whatever story we’re talking about.
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Here’s another interview with ‘Office’ writer Paul Feig…
Does the documentary style of The Office make it easier for the director?
Totally. You don’t have to shoot in the standard style that you usually use for movies and TV shows. That is, let’s say two people are at a dinner table talking to each other. You would generally shoot one person from one direction, kind of over the shoulder of the other person; then you’d flip the cameras around, relight, and go the other way. But since the conceit of The Office is that it’s a documentary, you’d never set up shots where one camera can see the other camera. So it allows you to go very quickly, because you don’t have to reset the lighting within a scene.
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