620 - This Uncertain Age
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig investigate their anxiety and ask, why is the future so hard to predict right now? They discuss everything from what’s going at OpenAi, the upcoming elections, a new service that uses AI to generate script coverage, and muse about how to move forward in a time of unprecedented uncertainty.
We also follow up with two listeners who wrote in for advice, and answer new questions on composite characters, being inspired by reddit, and how to maintain a long running D&D group.
In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig freestyle the introduction to the upcoming Scriptnotes Book.
Links:
- The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You’ll Never See by John Carreyrou for the New York Times
- Digital background actors in Disney’s Prom Pact
- Sacking, revolt, return: how crisis at OpenAI over Sam Altman unfolded by Dan Milmo for The Guardian
- Alex Edelman: Just for Us
- Weber Connect Smart Grilling Hub
- Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt!
- Check out the Inneresting Newsletter
- Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription!
- Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram
- John August on Threads, Instagram and Twitter
- John on Mastodon
- Outro by Alex Winder (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and this is episode 620 of script notes a podcast |
| 0:02.0 | and this is episode 620 of script notes a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:13.7 | Today on the show, what is it about this moment at the end of 2023 that feels so uncertain, so unsettled? |
| 0:19.7 | We'll discuss how we're feeling about the industry and beyond. |
| 0:22.1 | We also follow up on advice we gave listeners in previous episodes and |
| 0:25.6 | new questions on composite characters, anecdotes, and sustaining a D&D group. |
| 0:30.7 | Yes. |
| 0:31.7 | And in our bonus segment for premium members, we're going to |
| 0:34.0 | freestyle an introduction to the script notes book, the first draft of which Craig |
| 0:37.4 | is due in January. Oh no, I haven't done it. Yeah, it's that nightmare where you wake up and you realize like the |
| 0:45.4 | exam has happened and you haven't studied you forgot to drop the class. Oh no my essay |
| 0:50.4 | isn't finished. The book is in good shape but we don't have an |
| 0:54.1 | introduction so let's most of the book is really just based on our |
| 0:57.5 | transcripts so we will have a freestyle discussion and it will become the |
| 1:00.8 | introduction to a book. So people can hear it here first. |
| 1:04.2 | First, Drew, we have some follow-up |
| 1:06.2 | on previous people who wrote in with questions. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah, we heard back from Ghosted, who is no longer Ghosted, right? |
| 1:11.4 | I just wanted to write in with an encouraging follow-up after |
| 1:14.0 | having been ghosted by the studio for six months when a film I wrote disappeared off a |
| 1:17.8 | streaming site, the director emailed today to tell me that it is now available to |
| 1:21.2 | rent and buy on Apple and Amazon. |
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