606 - Character and Story Fit
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
John welcomes back Pamela Ribon (My Year of Dicks, Moana) to talk about how to fit the right characters to your story. We know story comes from characters, but often an idea starts with a world, so how do writers find the right characters to build their story around?
We also talk about writing for animation, working in reality TV and the forgotten art of television recapping. We then answer listener questions about choosing a character’s sex and gender, and gauging page count from an outline.
And in our bonus segment for premium members, we explore Pamela’s own podcast, Listen to Sassy, about the greatest teen magazine of all time.
Links:
- Pamela Ribon on IMDb
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- Television Without Pity
- Get Real (1999-2000) on IMDb
- How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party by Evan Osnos for The New Yorker
- The Secret to Judd Apatow’s Comedy? A Huge Library of Self-Help Books by Clay Skipper
- Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John heads up that today's episode has just a little bit of swearing in it. |
| 0:06.7 | Hello and welcome my name is John August and this episode 606 of Script Notes a podcast about |
| 0:11.8 | Screen Ride again things that are interesting to Screen Riders. How do you know it's got the |
| 0:16.0 | right characters for your story and whether you have the right story for your characters to help |
| 0:19.9 | us solve this crucial piece of matchmaking we welcome back Pamela Ribbon a Screen Rider who's |
| 0:24.7 | credits include Milana Ralph Ricks the Internet and the new Netflix feature D'Amona. Her short film |
| 0:29.9 | My Year of Dix was not only a previous one cool thing it's Oscar Nobby Ney it made Craig Giggle |
| 0:35.9 | every time I said it welcome back Pamela. Hi thank you for having me. I'm so excited to have you on |
| 0:42.2 | the podcast again full disclosure you moderated a session very recently about Screen Riding and your |
| 0:48.2 | questions were so brilliant and so insightful and you're leading the discussion it actually suppressed |
| 0:53.6 | my need to sort of take over all those things because you know what I'm talking about. |
| 0:57.4 | I do. This is the highest praise I've ever received thank you so yeah they were so so good that I |
| 1:02.9 | kept I stopped myself in answering questions it didn't try to sort of redirect the question but |
| 1:08.1 | I recognize you as a fellow podcast host and so if at any point you feel you need to elevate |
| 1:12.4 | yourself from just gas to podcast co-host feel free. I will be your Craig as much as you need |
| 1:19.4 | I'll take Umbridge but you will find that I am a more empathetic Umbridge person. |
| 1:24.8 | Yeah but you have strong opinions though and I like that too you have strong opinions about craft |
| 1:28.4 | and like I really want to dig it and talk about craft but I also want to talk about recapping because |
| 1:32.7 | you were a recapper and I want to talk about that relationship between writing about film and |
| 1:36.8 | television and writing film and television yeah what that is we got some listener questions |
| 1:41.6 | I'm excited to get into it oh also for a bonus segment for premium members I want to talk |
| 1:45.4 | about your podcast because you have a podcast called listen to sassy which is all going back |
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