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Women and Pilots

Episode - 127

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January 21, 2014 Directors, News, Scriptnotes, Television, Transcribed

Carolyn Strauss, executive producer of Game of Thrones, joins John and Craig to discuss female directors and the death of pilot season. In one short hour, they solve all the intractable problems facing the film and television industry. (Not true. Not even remotely.)

Craig and John also recount the previous Sunday’s inaugural all-screenwriter dungeon crawl. It was Craig’s first D&D ever, and John’s first time DM’ing in 20 years.

Links:

  • Dungeon World
  • Carolyn Strauss on Wikipedia and IMDb
  • Lexi Alexander’s blog post on the underrepresentation of women in Hollywood
  • AV Club on Fox’s announcing they are moving away from pilot season
  • Shakespeare for iPhone and iPad
  • Organize your brain with WorkFlowy
  • The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
  • Outro by Scriptnotes listener Matthew Chilelli

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 1-24-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

Punching the Salty Ocean

January 14, 2014 Scriptnotes, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed

John and Craig took a look at Final Draft 9 and the futility of Twitter arguments before launching into three brand-new Three Page Challenges.

Links:

  • Business Insider on the responses from Hollywood CCs who should have been BCCs
  • Final Draft 9 is now for sale
  • Three Pages by Billiam Coronel
  • Three Pages by Jeff Pulice and the Q&A from the Holiday Spectacular
  • Three Pages by Steven Arvanites
  • How to submit your Three Pages, and Stuart’s post on lessons learned from the early batches
  • Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
  • Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
  • Global Entry is worth your time
  • An extremely limited number of shirts are back in the John August Store
  • Outro by Scriptnotes listener Kim Atle

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 1-17-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

Egoless Screenwriting

January 7, 2014 Film Industry, News, Psych 101, Scriptnotes, Transcribed, WGA

It’s a week of big egos as Craig and John take a look at when (or whether) filmmakers will be able to pull a Beyoncé and surprise-release a feature film, and what Mrs. Carter’s tussle with Amazon and Target means for the future of retail DVD.

Then we dust off an old blog post on “egoless programming” and find it has a lot to recommend for screenwriters. Finally, we look at the lawsuit over The Expendables because it’s crazy town.

Links:

  • BEYONCÉ by Beyoncé on iTunes
  • The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
  • The Hollywood Reporter on The Expendables lawsuit
  • Lego Mindstorms and Crazy Action Contraptions
  • European green
  • her is in theaters now
  • A bad her review in The Village Voice and the very few other bad reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
  • Outro by Scriptnotes listener Matthew Chilelli

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 1-10-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

Q&A from the Holiday Spectacular

December 31, 2013 Adaptation, QandA, Scriptnotes, Television, Transcribed

John, Craig, and guests take questions from the audience at the Scriptnotes Holiday Spectacular. Topics include TV writing careers, what to do once you have an agent, overcoming gender stereotypes, rewriting Dodgeball, and more.

Have a happy, healthy and safe New Year.

Links:

  • The Scriptnotes Holiday Spectacular
  • Aline Brosh McKenna on episodes 60, 76, 100, 101 and 119
  • Franklin Leonard on episode 60
  • Kelly Marcel on episode 115
  • Lindsay Doran on episode 68
  • Rawson Marshall Thurber on episodes 100 and 101
  • Richard Kelly on episode 118
  • The 2013 Black List and blcklst.com
  • Saving Mr. Banks is in theaters now
  • Thank you to the Writers Guild Foundation and the LA Film School for hosting
  • Support the Writers Guild Foundation and get something awesome from their Holiday Sale of Extraordinary Experiences
  • Intro/Outro by Scriptnotes listener Matthew Chilelli

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 12-31-13: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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