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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 162825" data-attributes="member: 27">It&#039;s a lot easier for a TV show to film choppy, quick scenes and edit them together afterwards.&nbsp; The director might end up with 49 minutes of scenes, but the episode can only be 46 minutes total.&nbsp; It&#039;s a lot easier to just cut one three-minute scene entirely than to go in and shave twenty seconds here, ten seconds there from long, involved scenes, especially when an editor might not realize the small bit he cut might actually be integral to the scene and thus screws up the whole script.&nbsp; As soaps work at incredible speeds these days, it&#039;s easier for the actors to memorize a bunch of two-page scenes than to memorize three or four, twenty-page scenes. So the choppiness is easier for the editors, the directors, and the actors.MTV did screw up a lot of our habits when watching TV or films, since a scene longer than three minutes on a TV show is rare, when old (1970s) soaps would often have single, eight-minute scenes between actors that spanned the entire period between commercials.&nbsp; Now each segment might have small scenes featuring four or five different plots.&nbsp; Our attention span has only gotten shorter in the age of text messages, Twitter, and the like.Daytime soaps are famous for writing those different plots in &#039;bubbles&#039;, where certain characters only interact with a select number of others, and one sees very little &#039;crossover&#039;.&nbsp; The only time you see a lot of characters interacting outside their group are large-scale events like weddings or parties.&nbsp; This is a function of budget, since certain actors are guaranteed (paid for) a certain number of appearances per week or per month, and if Actor A and Actor B have the same number of days guaranteed in their contracts, why not have them work the same schedule?&nbsp; If Actor A has to appear three days per week, you can&#039;t really have him romantically paired with Actor C who only gets three days per month.&nbsp; No daytime soap can have every actor appear in every episode the way a nighttime soap can (since the casts are so much larger in daytime), so there will always be this sort of compartmentalizing of characters.Also, when you write by committee (a daytime soap can have a writing staff of 10-12 people), certain writers may be tasked with certain plotlines, adding to the &#039;bubble&#039; concept since Writer A may only care about what&#039;s happening with his/her story and has no need for his/her characters to interact with anyone else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 162825, member: 27"] It's a lot easier for a TV show to film choppy, quick scenes and edit them together afterwards. The director might end up with 49 minutes of scenes, but the episode can only be 46 minutes total. It's a lot easier to just cut one three-minute scene entirely than to go in and shave twenty seconds here, ten seconds there from long, involved scenes, especially when an editor might not realize the small bit he cut might actually be integral to the scene and thus screws up the whole script. As soaps work at incredible speeds these days, it's easier for the actors to memorize a bunch of two-page scenes than to memorize three or four, twenty-page scenes. So the choppiness is easier for the editors, the directors, and the actors. MTV did screw up a lot of our habits when watching TV or films, since a scene longer than three minutes on a TV show is rare, when old (1970s) soaps would often have single, eight-minute scenes between actors that spanned the entire period between commercials. Now each segment might have small scenes featuring four or five different plots. Our attention span has only gotten shorter in the age of text messages, Twitter, and the like. Daytime soaps are famous for writing those different plots in 'bubbles', where certain characters only interact with a select number of others, and one sees very little 'crossover'. The only time you see a lot of characters interacting outside their group are large-scale events like weddings or parties. This is a function of budget, since certain actors are guaranteed (paid for) a certain number of appearances per week or per month, and if Actor A and Actor B have the same number of days guaranteed in their contracts, why not have them work the same schedule? If Actor A has to appear three days per week, you can't really have him romantically paired with Actor C who only gets three days per month. No daytime soap can have every actor appear in every episode the way a nighttime soap can (since the casts are so much larger in daytime), so there will always be this sort of compartmentalizing of characters. Also, when you write by committee (a daytime soap can have a writing staff of 10-12 people), certain writers may be tasked with certain plotlines, adding to the 'bubble' concept since Writer A may only care about what's happening with his/her story and has no need for his/her characters to interact with anyone else. [/QUOTE]

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