563 - VFX Deep Dive

Scriptnotes Podcast

John August

Screenwriter, Tv & Film, Writing, John, Screenwriting, August, Craig, Screenplay, Mazin

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

John and Craig welcome VFX supervisor Alex Wang (The Last of Us) and VFX producer/writer Addie Manis (Foundation) to pull back the (green screen) curtain on the visual effects production process.

We ask the VFX experts to break down a sample scene, line by line to explain how they’d turn scene description into an actual scene. From their first read to the edit, they describe how the script guides the visual language for their projects.

In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig talk about friends, both how to make them and how to keep them.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:03.1	My name is John August.
0:05.2	My name is Craig Mason.
0:06.6	And this is episode 563 of Script Nuts.
0:09.1	A podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.
0:12.2	Today in the show, we're going to do a deep dive with two VFX pros to figure out how
0:15.4	they would break down and discuss a sample scene.
0:18.1	It's a masterclass in thinking about how you would turn that scene description into an
0:21.0	actual scene.
0:22.7	And in our bonus segment for Premium Members, we're going to talk about friends, how to make
0:26.2	them, and how to keep them, especially as we get older.
0:29.2	That's really sweet, actually.
0:32.2	Yeah.
0:33.2	You know, considering who we are and who our audience is, I think this is a really good
0:37.4	topic.
0:38.4	We should talk about this.
0:39.4	I'm listening to actually old episodes for the book that we're doing.
0:42.0	As it started the podcast, I said on the air like, well, we're not actual friends in
0:45.3	real life.
0:46.3	And you are a hard worker.
0:47.3	Oh, wow.
0:48.3	Yeah.
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