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Villaintine's Month: Miles Morales vs. Kingpin
This month we're looking at pairings of heroes and villains that have more chemistry than some romantic couples. What does it mean to be an archnemesis?
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Screenwriting Credits Explained
Writer credits are complicated, and unpacking them for any particular project may be an impossible task without talking directly to those involved.
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Never Too Late: Screenwriting at Any Age
John tackles a difficult question for writers who wonder how long is too long to keep trying.
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Assistants’ Advice for Showrunners
John surveyed current and former TV assistants to create a document that is both specific to the world of television and also can broadly apply as a template for how to be a better boss.
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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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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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🤖 #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