Quoted from Colkurtz8 That's what I'm thinking. If anything, it's refreshing, to read those scripts and see how they're written. Sure, they comply with the main rules of format but there is a lot of diversity in there also from one script to the next. Everyone is writing via their own styles, with their own little quirks and signatures...and I'm all for it.

Yep, it's called having a voice.  Johnny the pro reader mentions it in the podcast.

Quoted from Why One Yep, it's called having a voice.  Johnny the pro reader mentions it in the podcast.

Who's Johnny the pro reader?

If you're referring to John Rainey we didn't record last Friday due to technical issues. We  will redo it this Friday.

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films The film, if properly produced, should be as good as the script as none of the excitement or joy of the script is coming from the style of the writing, rather than the actual action.

Hello Dec, I agree with much of what you've said.

I just want to clarify and help us all to ingrain it into our heads that action does not necessarily mean tension. Again, we could say a whole heck of a lot about this, but I want to say this because I truly believe it:

The intention before any action is what matters. The end of any action is in its preliminary thought. If executed with intensity of intention, the writer's style WILL have a strong effect on the finished product. Additionally, even if it changes according to what the writer ever conceived, it may turn out better than he expected; so there's a lot to process here.

What's important as a writer is transmitting to the page and to the reader, what you want to draw up as an experience for them-- to help them feel and experience.

My point here is that words are just words until the writer builds them into something with real feeling and that feeling transposes, but retains its inherent form, even after it gets into the hands of many other artists, each doing their particular job in the process.

That's why, as RV's put it, the story is most important. Format can easily be fixed.

Sandra

Quoted from Grandma Bear Who's Johnny the pro reader?

The guest on the Inner Sanctum podcast episode.  He was referred to as Johnny.

I recall him mentioning about how, out of the slew of so-so scripts, the ones that carried a voice stood out.  Or I could be mincing the advice I heard elsewhere.

Why oh why oh why. Hmmm.

I tink data guy was called that two. But then again. WaddoIno?

R

I thought you meant the the guy we will do tonight that we didn't do last week due to technical issues.  

Quoted from Grandma Bear Who's Johnny the pro reader?

Aw, how soon you forget!