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'Cleaners' online team-written sitcom WEEK 5: 7-13th Sep
The team produces a first draft. Editorial meeting and public chatroom proceed as usual. The team's work-in-progress is posted online.
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 Cleaners scenario
 Timetable
 A World 1st Explained
 The Writing Process
 Writing Team Profile
 Editorial Team Profile
Latest Draft
Read some ideas, notes and first draft treatments for the first episode entitled 'Trust'.

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Latest Notes
Read about how the seven writers were selected to work on the 'Cleaners' project.

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Character Studies
The writers
try the characters of Acme cleaning crew C
on for size.

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Watch the writing process live and chat among yourselves
"It always surprises me when I start writing how much material you need for 30 minutes!"

infuriated, 09/09/02
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"What has been apparent is that we’ve been quite vague in some of the treatment..."

Barry Hutchison, 07/09/02
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"I think I'm right in saying that you should have all scenes except 13 which has been cut?"

Debbie Giggle, 11/09/02
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Tuesday 10th September
There are a couple of points still to finalise in the scene-by-scene breakdown of the episode but writing of the first draft can now begin. Barry, lead writer, asked the writers whether they had any preferences and, with these in mind, divided the scenes between the team.

There are 35 scenes in total although a number of these are very short. Barry’s aim was to apportion sets of scenes with a similar approximate total running time to share the task as evenly as possible. ----Debbie

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