Sunday, 16 March 2008

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

We’ve just finished writing 95% of our live show Ladma vs. The World. We know it’s 95% because Final Draft gives us an in-depth breakdown of all statistics relating to our script (even though we haven’t finished writing it). As a matter of interest, we have so far written 8, 595 words. These have been split into 1, 440 paragraphs. That’s an average of 5.97 words per paragraph. Chris speaks 38% of the time and interacts mostly with me. Pete speaks 27% of the time and interacts mostly with Chris. I speak 33% of the time and interact mostly with Chris. As you can see, I’m the only Ladma who’s had the decency to claim my allocation of 33% of the words.

It also does an interesting breakdown of the use of profanity. Pete, Chris and I all have at least one cock. Both Chris and I have a shit but I’m the only one to have a piss during the show. Pete and I have a couple of fucks but unfortunately Chris doesn’t get to fuck. I’m the only one with a dildo. I’m also the one responsible for bullshit appearing in two separate scenes.

Dan

1 comment:

Pete @ Eyes on Power said...

My favourite stage direction is "Dan has a stupid face" just written on its own. It looks really harsh.