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Featured Friday: Awards 2025
This week, we celebrate the best part of awards season – the FYC screenplays released as part of Oscar campaigns!
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Novel vs. Screenplay: Choose the Right Route for Your Story
John talks about knowing what medium would best suite the story you're trying to tell.
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Screenplay Scene Headings: INT., EXT., and I/E Explained
In screenplay scene headings, INT. and EXT. stand for interior and exterior, respectively. You use INT. when the scene takes place inside a location and EXT. when it occurs outside.
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🗓️ #279 - What will we make this year about?
Thanks for joining us again for the start of another Inneresting year! Even though a new year is a somewhat arbitrary place to make a fresh start, it's a good time to take stock. What have you been doing? What are you doing? What do you want to
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Featured Friday: Frontiers, Myths, and Legends
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we're pulling from our proposed film studies syllabus to focus on larger than life storytelling. These stories ask big questions about what makes a hero, and peel
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Script Revision Colors: How to Track Your Screenplay Changes
Colored pages are used in film and television to keep track of revisions to a script as it goes into production.
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Interrupted Dialogue: How to Format Character Interruptions
One easy way to show one character interrupting another is to use double-dashes or an ellipsis to indicate the first character’s dialogue is being interrupted.
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V.O. vs O.S.: Voice‑Over & Off‑Screen Dialogue Explained
V.O. (voice over) and O.S. (off-screen) are similar terms, but they have slightly different applications.
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🎞️ #278 - Do we need a canon?
"I can't believe you haven't seen (x)!" In Scriptnotes episode 713, Danya Jimenez & Hannah McMechan talked briefly with John about how one element of film school is how it forces you to watch a lot of things you wouldn't necessarily seek
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Featured Friday: Remembering Rob Reiner
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we remember Rob Reiner. Reiner brought the words of writers like Norah Ephron, William Goldman, Aaron Sorkin, and Stephen King to the screen, creating multiple modern day classics. Our
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🤖 #277 - Do we want to be more human?
While it's a long way from large language models to generalized artificial intelligence in the real world, there are plenty of stories where artificially sentient beings question their humanity (and if they really need any). Frequently stories about artificial life, whether created by science or magic, focus on
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Featured Friday: Golden Globes 2026 (Television)
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we celebrate this year’s Golden Globe nominations with a look at the series nominated for Best Television Series, both Drama and Musical or Comedy. If any more scripts