{ "docId": "019f6b8e-d8e9-74af-9146-eb1385543bcd", "docSlug": "jarvis-11-laws-of-showrunning-mean-version", "documentTitle": "11 laws of showrunning mean version", "authorId": "11-laws-of-showrunning-mean-version", "authorName": null, "documentKindSlug": "deck", "documentKindLabel": "Deck", "sourceTypeSlug": "investor_relations", "sourceTypeLabel": "Investor relations", "presentationDate": null, "orientation": null, "aspectRatio": null, "pageNumber": 21, "pageCount": 48, "prevPage": 20, "nextPage": 22, "slideType": "key_messages", "function": "establish_context", "density": "overcrowded", "nDataPoints": 0, "notes": "The slide uses a humorous anecdote about Herbert Von Karajan to illustrate the trap of trying to be everywhere at once.", "elementsJson": null, "metadataConfidence": 0.95, "imagePath": null, "slideHref": "/slides/019f6b8e-d8e9-74af-9146-eb1385543bcd/21", "deckHref": "/decks/019f6b8e-d8e9-74af-9146-eb1385543bcd", "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019f6b8e-d8e9-74af-9146-eb1385543bcd.json", "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019f6b8e-d8e9-74af-9146-eb1385543bcd#slide-21", "components": [ { "bbox": { "h": 0.1, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.18 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "In the 1980's, the members of the Berlin Symphony told joke about their notoriously imperious conductor, Herbert Von Karajan. It went like this: The maestro gets into a taxi. The driver asks \"Where to?\" \"It doesn't matter,\" Von Karajan declaims, \"I'm needed EVERYWHERE!\"", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "1ffb4bb0-1eb6-4a59-8221-77f80d204f01", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.25, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.45 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "(Let me add here that if you don't think the writers room is the single most important place in the world for you to be, you're wrong. Unless you're by nature a monomaniac, masochist, or misanthrope: the kind of insecure buffoon who needs constant proof that \"no one gets it but me\". You're not alone in this fallacy, however, and can have a long and storied career of making great television while avoiding the writers room and all those horrible little writers in it: those trolls who constantly debate everything until they choke the life out of it... mostly because you have taught them to behave that way by dint of never making a decision. One showrunner - another multiple award-winner whose work I guarantee you respect and admire - once told me in a meeting that \"The writers room is where lazy people go to hide from real work.\" After I tried to divest him of this stupidity, he proceeded to not hire me and went on to win an Emmy. Go figure.)", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "222627d3-e864-41b6-b378-99db27228044", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.05, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.38 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "And though the writers room - the forge of your show's creation - is the single most important place in the universe as far as you should be concerned, everything conspires to keep you away from it.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "6ccef9ef-9d1e-41e6-a1cc-b3572cce5842", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.08, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.72 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "At any given moment during the course of a television season, there are five stories that have to be minded: the story in development on the board in the writers room, the story in outline, the story being scripted, the story being shot, and the story being completed in editing and post production.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "a4853128-1920-40cf-82e2-ab908677d53b", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.1, "w": 0.8, "x": 0.1, "y": 0.28 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "With or without the colossal arrogance, that is one of the essential truths of showrunner life. 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As the CEO of your own startup corporation, you are responsible for every facet of the production of your series: yes, even the embroidery on the back of the chairs.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "e74650ec-c848-4bd7-85f8-e5b03aea109b", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.05, "w": 0.5, "x": 0.25, "y": 0.1 }, "kind": "title", "text": "THE SEVENTH LAW OF SHOWRUNNING\nTRACK MULTIPLE TARGETS EFFICIENTLY\nBY DELEGATING RESPONSIBILITY", "attrs": null, "subkind": "headline", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "cf976eef-8302-4268-ab1f-f34b242164f6", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null } ], "metrics": [], "tools": [ { "name": "Monroe's Motivated Sequence", "slug": "monroes-motivated-sequence", "agent": "Storyteller", "layer": "slide", "matchId": "72992e74-0632-4715-a977-0df6a80cbe18", "evidence": "The reason the ranking system of writers goes from staff writer, to story editor, to executive story editor, to co-producer, producer, supervising producer, and co-executive producer, is because you' TRACK MULTIPLE TARGETS EFFICIENTLY BY DELEGATING RESPONSIBILITY", "confidence": 0.7 } ], "frameworks": [], "arcBeats": [ { "to": 48, "from": 21, "beatId": "da6bc3ad-4e18-49be-82a4-7fe91e0dbf47", "arcName": "Monroe's Motivated Sequence", "arcSlug": "monroes-sequence", "beatName": "Action", "beatSlug": "monroes-sequence-action", "evidence": "The final slides emphasize action and implementation.", "position": 3, "confidence": 0.7, "parentBeatName": "Resolution", "parentBeatSlug": "resolution" } ], "loops": [], "imagePathAlt": null, "thumbSrc": null, "thumbSrcAlt": null, "locked": true }