bbc writers room =- al smith

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/al_smith.shtml

You're currently working on an interactive drama for BBC Switch - how is that different to an ordinary drama?
It's great fun and unlike any drama I've worked on before. The idea behind the project is to give the first line and last line of every scene in a story, and then give the Switch audience the challenge of making their own version of each scene before sticking it online. I give them some guide-lines as to what has to happen per scene, and then they get to think up the most creative way to get from A to B, before uploading their scenes and editing them all together. You can then rate other people's versions of the same story, and string together your favourite sequence of events. I started out just writing a complete script, and then boiled it down to its simplest chunks, stripping out most of the dialogue, but keeping the flavour of each scene to give in one simple direction. It's a bit of an experiment, but I think it'll be fun to play with.