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Chekhov’s Ladder

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July 11, 2017 Scriptnotes

Craig and John discuss the concept of affordances — player expectations for what videogame characters can do — and how writers can apply these principles to their film and TV scripts.

Teaching the audience to know what is and isn’t possible can be hard to do artfully, but often makes all the difference.

Also this week: reducing sexism in screenplays, plus answers to listener questions about writers on set and giving feedback on friends’ terrible scripts.

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  • Addams Family on Netflix
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  • Creators of Tupac biopic ‘All Eyez on Me’ sued
  • Defining Environment Language for Video Games
  • Chekov’s Gun
  • Hanging a Lantern, or Lampshading
  • How To Reduce Sexism In Screenplays
  • Morty’s Screenplay Criticism
  • Domino Toppling
  • Submachine Escape Room Game
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  • John on Instagram
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  • Outro by Rajesh Naroth (send us yours!)

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You can download the episode here.

UPDATE 7-18-17: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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