636 - Whispering Loudly
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
John welcomes back Pamela Ribon (Nimona, My Year of Dicks) to quietly ask: what’s with all the whispering in movies these days? They discuss trends and techniques in voice and volume, picking the right moment to whisper, and the value of voices across decibel levels.
We also revisit Pamela’s work on Moana to look at what you can learn from reading early drafts, ponder the threat of TikTok and YouTube, follow-up on vetting potential co-workers, and answer a listener question on writing animation.
In our bonus segment for premium members, Pam shares all her star-studded stories from sitting in the 5th row at this year’s Oscars.
Links:
- Pamela Ribon on Instagram
- Listen to Sassy
- My Year of Dicks
- Nimona on Netflix
- Hire Survivors Hollywood
- Dune: Part Two Clip
- ‘Fundie Baby Voice’ Seems To Be Everywhere Now. Here’s What You Should Know by Caroline Bologna for Huffpost
- In a World – Smoothie
- Natural Born Killers 1990 Draft
- Natural Born Killers 1993 Draft
- Lin-Manuel Miranda on ‘I Want’ Songs, Going Method for ‘Moana’ and Fearing David Bowie
- More (Outtake) from Moana
- How Far I’ll Go from Moana
- How Bad Can It Get for Hollywood? by Mark Harris for NYT
- This Sitcom Got WEIRD When Nobody Watched It by David Friedman
- Researching An Old Sitcom With AI by David Friedman
- Coucou French classes
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- Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram
- John August on Threads, Instagram and Twitter
- John on Mastodon
- Outro by Vincent DeVito (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt with help from Chris Csont, and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome my name is John August and this episode 636 of Script Notes a |
| 0:06.8 | podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters to |
| 0:10.3 | stay on the show what's's with all whispering in movies? |
| 0:14.0 | Is it a deliberate narrative choice or just a fad? |
| 0:18.0 | We'll discuss a voice and volume. |
| 0:21.0 | We'll also look at what you can learn from reading early drafts, the threat of |
| 0:24.3 | Tik-Tok and YouTube, and answer some listener questions. Helping us out with all |
| 0:28.0 | of this is returning guest host Pamela Ribbon. Welcome back. |
| 0:31.3 | Hi, whoa! Yay, hi, thanks. Woo! I don't normally get a Woo- Pamela Ribbon. Welcome back. Hi. Yewh! |
| 0:33.0 | Whoa! |
| 0:34.0 | I don't normally get a Wu on. |
| 0:35.0 | Ooh, hello. |
| 0:37.0 | Wu is very very nice. |
| 0:38.0 | We had you on this summer and you were absolutely a phenomenal guest. |
| 0:41.0 | But since that time, I got to see your movie in |
| 0:43.2 | a Mbono which was fantastic. Oh thanks yeah it's a lot of people's movies but yes it's a |
| 0:47.4 | lot of people's movies but yes I'm so glad you got to see it that is a |
| 0:51.5 | miracle. Yeah so it's a very long process. So I do want to talk |
| 0:55.6 | to something about the history of that and sort of how it moved around and finally got made it. But I also want to talk |
| 1:00.1 | about you got to go to the Academy of Words that and I was not for the bonus |
| 1:04.2 | segment we would just talk about going to the Academy Awards and want it's like to go to |
| 1:07.0 | the Academy Awards. Totally that sounds that's one of my favorite things to talk |
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