What do reality show producers look for in a shoot?
The key of any sequencing of any story is the planning of what people are saying, their anticipation when they're in the moment, in the post mortem and, certainly, providing conflict. You can go to any story seminar, the screenwriting story seminars - conflict will usually be in advance of story. And that is true of any entertainment medium. Any. Film, not just reality TV. That is essentially what you look for. However, you need a beginning, middle, and end of every story. You can't just have conflict, and then conflict, and then conflict without having moments in between that explain what people are thinking. You need to find out what precedes the conflict and what the post mortem on the conflict is - you have to have a beginning, middle, and end. That is classic storytelling.