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Critics, Characters and Business Affairs

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October 14, 2014 Film Industry, Follow Up, Geek Alert, Scriptnotes, Transcribed

John and Craig were delighted to join the Slate Culture Gabfest on stage to talk about the gulf between critics and creators. We have the audio from that, and additional thoughts on the issue.

Then, how many characters does your movie need? We talk about how to figure out the Goldilocks spot where you have enough characters to make your world feel real, but not so many that they’re tripping over each other.

Finally, business affairs, and how understaffed legal departments create problems for writers and studios.

Links:

  • A few tickets remain for tonight’s Writers on Writing event with John interviewing Simon Kinberg
  • The Belasco Theater is gorgeous
  • John and Craig on the Slate Culture Gabfest
  • Star Wars Minus Williams – The Throne Room by Auralnauts
  • Çingleton
  • Indie Game: The Movie
  • Jalopnik on the Tesla Model S P85D
  • Get premium Scriptnotes access at scriptnotes.net and hear our 1,000th subscriber special
  • Outro by Scriptnotes listener Jonas Bech (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 10-20-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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