I’ve been writing a screenplay that is based on a certain concept album. I was wondering where, how, and any other information that I would need to obtain permission to adapt the work.
–Aaron
You can find the answer here.
New RSS Feed
This site now has an RSS feed, located here. If you click on the link, you’ll see that it comes up as badly formatted text. That’s because it’s designed to be used by something other than a standard web browser. Depending on your level of jadedness, RSS is either a brilliant new solution for content management or a hacky kludge using outdated technology. Either way, here’s what it does.
Every time a new item is added to the front page of johnaugust.com, a tiny file called index.xml is updated with a headline and summary of the information. This file is called a “feed.” Other sites and programs (called aggregators) can read and process this feed, allowing a user to keep track of dozens or hundreds of sites without having to visit each one every day. Since the user only needs to click through to the stories that interest him, it saves a lot of wasted time and bandwidth.
I use NetNewsWire for Mac OS X, but there are dozens of programs for every kind of computer. If you use MyYahoo, you can even add feeds to your home page. For more information about using RSS, including programs, look here.
New Big Fish paperback
Penguin is issuing a special paperback version of Daniel Wallace’s “Big Fish” with the new cover artwork. (You can see the bigger version of it here.) The cover is essentially the same as the upcoming one-sheet poster.
Do writers have a say in the music?
Once your screenplay
has been sold, do you (the writer) have any say in the music that is used?
–Joel Norn
Almost never.
The music in a movie is ultimately the decision of the director and a contentious
committee that includes the composer, the music supervisor, the editor, the
producer, the studio, and the soundtrack representative. Sometimes the writer
will be included in that group, but rarely, because the problem is usually
too many opinions, not too few.
An exception is when a very specific song needs to be used for a scene.
For example, in CHARLIE’S ANGELS, a scene opens with Tom Green’s character
singing "Angel
of Morning" while making breakfast, and that was always in the script.