On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Scriptwriting Software Surprise

2021-04-17T22:00:27Z

I bought an upgrade for Final Draft 11 last August. Just found out via Twitter this afternoon that they've gone "live" with sales of version 12 this past week.

Will have to look into the changes they've made after supper before I make a go/no-go decision.

(Scriptwriting/Drama was my best-graded subject when I studied Animation for TV at Algonquin College. Have never followed up properly on that, sorry to admit. My fault.)

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JOBS: Scripting Progress

2021-01-10T04:18:44Z

Ten pages of script written in two days. I think I need to punch up the plotting, though. "Show, don't tell", right?

Yes, this is all "spec". I'm not expecting to sell the story to anyone. But I need to practice with Final Draft in order to become comfortable using it.

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Random Notes for the Last Saturday in August 2020

2020-08-30T00:37:08Z

1. Got an updated edition of Final Draft. Last time I did so for that software, they were at version 8. Currently, they're on version 11.1.3. Some day, I need to get back to practicing scriptwriting. It was only my best-graded class in Animation for TV at Algonquin, after all.

2. Started fiddling with an old font design project in Typetool 3 tonight after supper. I'm never going to be in the same league as John Roshell, Richard Starkings, or Ray Larabie, but for me, it's a skill I want to get back to (re)learning.

3. Grey and wet has been the day here in Ottawa-Gatineau. I was thinking of going downtown earlier today, but the weather didn't leave me comfortable with that idea.

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DOCTOR WHO: Scripts @ BBC

2020-05-13T18:51:32Z

For my fellow Whovians. Spoilers possible?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/you-can-now-read-every-script-from-doctor-whos-latest-s-1843420291

https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/tv-drama/doctor-who

(I need an icon for posts re: "Sheffield/Thirteen".)

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RESEARCH: Alex Epstein on Writing Dumb Decisions

2020-03-30T12:10:08Z

Now this is something that caught my attention while checking my Blogger reading list this morning:

https://complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2020/03/brilliantly-dumb-decisions.html

Alex Epstein has a couple of books on the art of scriptwriting for film and TV that you might want to look up as time and access allow. But the blog alone is worth a couple of hours for anyone already inclined in that direction.

The specific reference to Jaws here...

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CULTURE: Unity (1918)

2020-03-11T20:16:28Z

There is a stage play I watched with my mother at the Great Canadian Theatre Company, some months after my father died: Unity (1918). We saw it because the title and setting were linkages to my father's side of the family.

The end of World War One, leading as a contributing factor into the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918...

A distressing detail: the script is only available for sale in e-formats.

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MCU: For When Avengers 5 Promotion Must Begin...

2019-08-12T18:39:41Z

I remember the first teaser of the first MCU Avengers movie, using much of the first part of this text that served as the preamble of many issues of The Avengers through the 1970's and 1980's, as spoken with import and intent by Samuel L. Jackson:

And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born — to fight the foes no single super hero could withstand! Through the years, their roster has prospered, changing many times, their glory has never been denied! Heed the call, then — for now, the Avengers assemble!

It occurs to me that when - not "if"! - it finally comes time to tease out the next instalment of the team's MCU adventures, Mr. Jackson might be persuaded to intone a more complete edition of this preamble. At least, such is my hope.

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