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Why movies have reshoots

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July 21, 2015 Film Industry, Follow Up, Scriptnotes, Transcribed, WGA

Reshoots used to be a sign that something had gone horribly wrong. But not anymore. John and Craig look at the reasons why Hollywood movies often go back for additional photography, and how the writer is involved.

Also this week, arbitration esoterica about the “final shooting script,” descriptive text for the blind, and news about the Austin Film Festival. (We’re going.)

It’s been almost a year since the last round of Scriptnotes t-shirts. So let’s print some more. We likely have amazing artists among our listeners, so if you have a design for a shirt you want to see, follow the link below for details. (The deadline for submissions is August 11th.)

Links:

  • Fun Home on Broadway
  • Sydney Lucas performs Ring of Keys
  • Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party on Wikipedia
  • Audio description on Wikipedia, and The Audio Description Project and examples from the American Council of the Blind
  • The Ax, by Donald E. Westlake on Amazon
  • A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway
  • John and Craig will be at the 2015 Austin Film Festival
  • Submit your Fall 2015 Scriptnotes shirt design
  • The Peanuts Movie trailer
  • Scriptnotes, 193: How writing credits work
  • Patton Oswalt on punch-up and ADR (mildly NSFW)
  • What is an insert? on screenwriting.io
  • Let’s Talk about Genre, with Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Capitals for iOS
  • Bloom County on Wikipedia and Berkeley Breathed on Facebook
  • Cathy on Wikipedia
  • Garfield Minus Garfield
  • Outro by Leon Schatz (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 7-24-15: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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