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An Alliance with House Mazin

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May 31, 2016 Follow Up, QandA, Rights and Copyright, Scriptnotes, Story and Plot, Television, Transcribed

It’s a craft episode, with Craig and John discussing allies and allegiances in film and television. Enemies are easy; friends are difficult. We talk through the types relationships characters find themselves in, and strategies for making the most of them.

(This episode has a lot of Game of Thrones geekery, but very few spoilers.)

Also this week, we discuss geographic accuracy, release forms, and showing snippets of plays within movies.

Links:

  • Find Scriptnotes transcripts at johnaugust.com
  • Scriptnotes, 250: The One with the Austin Winner
  • Scriptnotes Bonus: Craig and Adam McKay
  • Idea Submission Policy and Agreement release form
  • Vox’s Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time on YouTube
  • Amen break on Wikipedia
  • Martin Panchaud’s Star Wars: A New Hope in infographic form
  • Outro by Timothy Vajda (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here.

UPDATE 6-2-16: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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