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May 7, 2013 Film Industry, Formatting, QandA, Scriptnotes, So-Called Experts, Television, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed

Has a statistician cracked the code on successful screenplay formulas? John and Craig cast a skeptical eye at a New York Times article on Vinny Bruzzese, who claims to have done exactly that.

But is the real story Bruzzese’s numbers game, or a general misunderstanding of how the film industry actually operates?

From there, we answer several reader questions before diving in on a new batch of Three Page Challenges.

LINKS:

  • Turning the Page: Storytelling in the Digital Age at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater
  • Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data by Brooks Barnes
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Black swan theory on Wikipedia
  • Screenwriting.io on multicamera script format
  • Three Pages by Sue Morris
  • Three Pages by Robin Peters
  • Three Pages by Kevin Pinkerton
  • FilmCraft Screenwriting by Tim Grierson on Amazon
  • OUTRO: Thompson Twins’ Doctor Doctor covered by Danny McEvoy

You can download the episode here: AAC.

UPDATE 5-10-13: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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