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One-step deals, and how to read a script

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December 4, 2012 Film Industry, Scriptnotes, Software, Transcribed, WGA

Craig and John take a break from writing scripts to talk about how screenwriters should read scripts. Paper or iPad? Single or double-sided? And how do you keep track of your notes for future conversations?

Then it’s a session of roleplaying and maximum umbrage as we look at the logic and fallacies behind one-step deals for screenwriters.

Cleansing our palette, we look at Skyfall. Spoilers, folks. Spoilers!

Craig closes the podcast with a remembrance of his friend, screenwriter Don Rhymer, who died last week after a long and wittily-observed battle with cancer.

LINKS:

  • Fade In screenwriting software
  • Fountain, a plain text markup language for screenwriting
  • Brett Terpstra’s Systematic podcast, Episode 20 with David Wain
  • adult swim’s Childrens Hospital
  • FDX Reader for iOS
  • Final Draft Reader for iOS
  • GoodReader for iOS
  • PDF Expert for iOS
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator on Wikipedia
  • The Myers & Briggs Foundation’s page on where to take the MBTI
  • The WGA Showrunner Training Program
  • LA Times on Don Rhymer’s passing
  • Don’s cancer blog, Let’s Radiate Don
  • Todd Downing’s breakdown of the Skyfall theme song
  • INTRO: Strawberry Shortcake Intro (Italian)
  • OUTRO: For Your Eyes Only/Skyfall, arranged and performed by John August

You can download the episode here: AAC.

UPDATE 12-7-12: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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