Hello and welcome. My name is John August, and you're listening to Episode 696 of Script Notes.

It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show,

what do screenwriters need to know about working with directors? This question is so foundational

that producer Drew Markhorn has cut together a new compendium on just this topic.

Drew, what are we hearing today?

We're going to start all the way back in episode four from September 2011.

We're going to talk about working with directors as a screenwriter.

So it's everything from that working relationship to set etiquette and all the way through post.

I love when we go back to the very early episodes whereig and i have just no idea what we're doing in a podcast craig sounds bubbly in this one almost weird yeah yeah yeah what happened to craig mazen what happened so much happened to craig mazit he's still fine but what's the second episode we're going to talk about? Then we're going to go to episode 176.

It starts as advice to a first-time director.

In this case, it's our own Matthew Chellelli. It's how to run a set. It's how to prep your shot list. It's working with actors. It's all that good stuff. And then from there, we're going to look at the perfect director. We had that the perfect series for a while. so this outlines just sort of the ideal qualities of that writer-director relationship.

Well, fantastic. So it's weird that like, you know,

a hundred and, series for a while. So this outlines just sort of the ideal qualities of that writer-director relationship. Oh, fantastic. So it's weird that like, you know, 172 episodes later we're coming back to that topic, but that's still 10 years ago. I know. So much time has passed. We've touched on directors a lot. I think we've talked about directors a lot, but we haven't done sort of of special statements on them because I think we covered it pretty well. And so now we are

unearthing it from the archive and talking about it today. In our bonus segment of premium members, you, Drew Marquardt, are just about to be a director again yourself. You're about to go off a director project. So you said we talk about something that you're experiencing for the first time about

trying to cast actors. Yes.

So I got my first

like round You suggest to we talk about something that you're experiencing for the first time about trying to cast actors? Yes. So I got my first, like, round of rejections, like, roundly rejected. And it's a strange feelings. I would love to talk through it. You were an actor before this. So you've been rejected before, but now you're being rejected by actors. In a totally new way. It's a whole new way. This industry is mostly about rejection, and it's sort of on one side of the fence or the other. Truly. All right. We'll dig into that. So listen to these two compendium bits from previous episodes, the one back at the end for our one cool things, and then a other wrap-up business. Thanks, Drew. Thanks.

Today we wanted to talk about directors and how screenwriters deal with directors and what that relationship is like, some templates for thinking about how you would work with

a director on a project.

And you've had many movies shot, and have all of your director experiences been fantastic no no

that's weird no i mean i i think i've had more good ones than i really only had one kind of weird

one um mostly that they've been good i would say mostly good yeah i've said most of mine have been

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