Entries tagged with scripts

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Scriptwriting Software Surprise

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

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.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Home

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Random Notes for the Last Saturday in August 2020

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.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Spark on CBC Radio

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DOCTOR WHO: Scripts @ BBC

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

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...

Current Music: All in a Day on CBC Radio

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CULTURE: Unity (1918)

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.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Ideas in the Afternoon on CBC Radio

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

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.

Current Mood: nerdy

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Agents of SHIELD: A Thought on "The Good Samaritan" (Probable Spoilers)

There was a particular conversation involving new SHIELD Director Jeffrey Mace and newly-demoted-by-own-request-to-special field officer-in-charge Phil Coulson...and the metaphor they went with?

( Some thoughts about that particular scene... )

Current Mood: contemplative

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

In which I discuss my opinion of the film.

Certainly, it was worth about ten dollars and over two hours of my life. I was moved to anger, to laughter, to shock. Pretty much as the cast and crew intended me. As an expansion upon the plot of "The Final Problem", I can accept it with thanks.

Thus, only one regret over the whole experience.

That regret is tied to one most particular scene in the story, involving Prof. Moriarty and...one other character. It was prepared and performed well enough...but perhaps it is that I am indeed too much a creature of the 20th and 21st centuries to accept it as presented. I wish that we'd had something very different for that other character.

Sidebar Note added on New Year's Eve 2011: I guess this counts as my last "movie watched at a cinema house" of 2011.

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An Open Letter re: Bon Cop, Bad Cop to One of the Writers

Inspired by this entry from co-writer Alex Epstein's blog.

Interesting revelation on your blog. Sad to see the ROC box office figures being what they are, because I know that in my neck of the Ottawa woods, the buzz has been VERY good indeed.

In fact, I'm planning on going back for a second viewing within the week. I'm also pleasantly surprised to see the film actually holding on in the Ottawa market for five weeks now. I don't think I've seen a made-in-Canada movie do this well since Men With Brooms.

You'd think that being able to laugh at Ontarians and Quebecois both making laughingstocks of themselves at select points throughout the movie would fill lots of seats in the western and Maritime provinces. (And I speak as a Saskatchewan-born and Prairie-raised kid, so I like to think I have *some* expertise on this point! *grin*)

Thanks again for contributing to a Damn Good Movie, Alex!