Hello and welcome. My name is John August. My name is Craig Mason. And you're listening to Episode 681 of Script Notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, what do you do when the answer isn't yes or no, but an extended and interminable maybe? We'll discuss strategies for coping and navigating periods of frustrating ambiguity

as you're trying to push projects forward. Then it's a new round of the three-page challenge

where we take a look at pages our listeners have sent in and offer our honest feedback.

And in our bonus segment we were premium members, how do you know when a movie or TV show

has had reshoots or significant retinkering.

Craig and I will spill the secrets to help us notice that things have changed there.

Let's ruin it for everyone.

Absolutely. That's why I put it in the bonus statement.

So if you don't want to be spoiled, you can't get a bonus statement.

Yeah, we're going to spoil everything.

The tricks, the tips, the everything.

But first, we have some follow-up. Drew, help us out.

Sure.

Elizabeth writes,

Can you please ask Craig to stop joking that nobody in post reads the script supervisor's notes?

My notes are nearly always utilized by the editor and post team, and the role of script supervisor has been dismissed, disrespected, and marginalized for far too long by directors and producers.

Okay, Elizabeth, this feels like manufactured outrage. I'm literally expressing an opinion

in support of script supervisors and the way that their work is overlooked, and your reaction

is to say, stop dismissing us. Here's the reality. You're not in the editing rooms. I am.

And I'm telling you, after 30 years, it is extraordinarily rare for the editors or the post team

to refer to the notes. Take my word for it. It's extraordinarily rare. And if you're frustrated by that,

imagine how frustrated I am about that.

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