573 - Three Page Challenge Live in Austin 2022
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
John welcomes Marc Velez, SVP, Head of Development at UCP, on for an in-person round of the Three Page Challenge. As always, we look at listener-submitted pages and offer honest feedback, at the Austin Film Festival.
We’re joined live by each of the writers who add context and pitch their vision for each project. From near-future sci-fi to a familiar Hollywood horror story, John and Marc offer advice on how to craft a compelling opening.
In our bonus segment for premium members, we answer listener questions on noisiness, specs, and preparing other pitch materials.
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- The Encyclopedists by Michael X. Heiligenstein
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- The Untimely Demise of That Awful David Schwartzman by Rudi O’Meara
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John. |
| 0:01.6 | Today's episode was recorded live last week at the Austin Film Festival. |
| 0:05.4 | So this was the day after our big Rockets live show. |
| 0:08.9 | This was a more sedate affair, but still a pretty full house. |
| 0:11.8 | We have a bunch of the writers who wrote their scenes for the three-page challenge. |
| 0:15.0 | In the audience, we had to talk to them about what they wrote, why they wrote it, and |
| 0:18.7 | get some real feedback from them. |
| 0:20.7 | If you're a pretty memory, check it out after the credits, because we'll do some Q&A with |
| 0:24.0 | the audience. |
| 0:25.0 | Some really good questions were asked and hopefully answered. |
| 0:28.2 | Enjoy. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello, welcome. |
| 0:34.4 | My name is John Auguste. |
| 0:35.8 | This is a sort of version of script notes, which they podcast about screenwriting and things |
| 0:40.8 | that are interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:42.6 | How many people in this room were here live in Austin, Texas? |
| 0:45.3 | How many people in this room have submitted a three-page challenge to script notes, either |
| 0:48.1 | now or at some point? |
| 0:49.1 | That's a lot of hands here on the audience. |
| 0:50.6 | A lot of brave screenwriters here. |
| 0:53.0 | So for folks who are not aware of it, the three-page challenge is the thing we've been doing |
| 0:56.0 | on the script notes podcast for ten years. |
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