John and Craig welcome producer Dan Etheridge (iZombie, High Potential, Party Down) to look at how non-writing producers develop projects, coordinate across departments, and maintain the tone of the show as directors come and go.
We offer practical tips for making the most of video village, regardless of your role, and solutions for the scourge of directors chairs.
Highland Pro, John’s next generation screenwriting app is now available now for Mac, iPad and iPhone! We discuss what’s new and what’s coming next.
We also answer listener questions pitching multiple projects, writing on tablets and how to launch an app.
In our bonus segment for premium members, John, Craig and Dan look back on their experience officiating weddings, and offer advice for those about to marry people. Dan even officiated John’s wedding!
Links:
- Highland Pro | Download on the App Store
- Dan Etheridge on IMDb
- Buck Rodgers’ robot sidekick
- The Tom Thumb locomotive
- Statpage and DuckDuckGo
- I Miss the Music from Curtains
- Curule
- Evercast
- Scripto
- Night Moves, Prime Cut, and Scarecrow
- Lorelei and the Laser Eyes on Steam
- Diplomacy
- Beneath the Moon and Long Dead Stars by Daniel Wallace
- Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt!
- Check out the Inneresting Newsletter
- Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription!
- Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram
- John August on BlueSky, Threads, and Instagram
- Outro by Richard Barrett (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
Email us at ask@johnaugust.com
You can download the episode here.
UPDATE 3-21-25: The transcript for this episode can be found here.