689 - The Old New Video Problem
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
New forms of video creation are coming to disrupt the entertainment industry, but will they succeed? John and Craig look at verticals and Veo 3 to see where we might be heading, and what our industry’s past innovations might tell us about about the future.
We also look at Memorial Day’s banner box office, and answer listener questions on bereavement during production, momentum, scene geography and how to fight motion smoothing.
In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig travel back in time to find which moments in history they wish they could see in person.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. My name is John August. |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, my name is Craig Meese. And you're listening to Episode 689 of Script Notes. It's a podcast |
| 0:09.6 | about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, could |
| 0:14.0 | new entertainment formats like verticals disrupt existing film and television? And what impact |
| 0:19.3 | will AI-generated video have on all of it? |
| 0:21.7 | We'll look back to history for clues about the future. |
| 0:24.4 | Then we'll answer listener questions on momentum, scene geography, and television settings. |
| 0:29.2 | And in our bonus segment for premium members, what moment in history, Craig, do you wish you could most see in person? |
| 0:34.8 | Oh, my. |
| 0:35.5 | Oh, my. |
| 0:36.0 | So just as a spectator, so you can't change anything. |
| 0:38.5 | You just have to watch. |
| 0:39.7 | You're just there. |
| 0:40.3 | Okay. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.0 | Okay. |
| 0:41.6 | But first, let's start on some good news. |
| 0:43.1 | So two weekends ago, Memorial Day weekend, the biggest Memorial Day weekend in history at the box office. |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.2 | Stitch it Impossible. |
| 0:50.5 | That's right. |
| 0:51.1 | Stitch Possible. |
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