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Lists of online communities

• 2014.06.22 - Screencraft.org - 8 of the Best Screenwriting Forums and Message Boards

The Black Board - 404

Done Deal Pro - Not very active

INDIETALK.com - Mostly inactive

Reddit - /r/screenwriting - Very active

ScriptChat - 1 hour chat on Sundays at 5pm PT

ScriptShadow - Cool website, but no forum...?

Simply Scripts - Active

Stage 32 Lounge

Wordplay - Not very active

Write to Reel - $10/mo

Writing Forums

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

• referenced in Adaptation

Final Draft

Star Wars

• The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film

  • Foreword by Peter Jackson

  • Introduction

  • The Lost Interviews

  • Chapter 1: Two Visions (1968 to August 1973)

    • Journal of the Whills

    • The Star Wars Treatment

  • Chapter 2: Fighting Words (August 1973 to January 1975)

    • Rough Draft

    • First Draft

    • Second Draft

  • Chapter 3: Boundary Busters (January 1975 to August 1975)

    • Story Synopsis and Typed Outline

    • Third Draft

  • Chapter 4: Frenzy (August 1975 to September 1975)

  • Chapter 5: Purgatory (September 1975 to December 1975)

  • Chapter 6: Rise of the Poetic State (December 1975 to March 1976)

    • Fourth Draft

    • Revised Fourth Draft

  • Chapter 7: Mindstorms in the Sand (March 1976 to April 1976)

  • Chapter 8: Faster than a Speeding Freight Train (April 1976 to May 1976)

  • Chapter 9: Vanishing Point (May 1976 to July 1976)

  • Chapter 10: Ace-People and the Wizards (July 1976 to December 1976)

  • Chapter 11: Celluloid Transfiguration (December 1976 to April 1977)

  • Chapter 12: Fairy-Tale Cinema (April 1977 to December 1977)

• The Star Wars: Story Synopsis

• The Star Wars: Rough Draft

• Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars

I suspect TV / films focus more than they should on dialogue, and less than they should on storytelling with visuals (e.g. physical comedy), because TV / films seem to be based primarily on scripts, and scripts seem to have a tradition(?) of focusing on dialogue rather than depictions of what characters do with their bodies, what the audience sees, etc.

Max Landis - What Television Production Is Like

• Main idea: TV execs have conflicting constraints / priorities and don't tell the writers all of their constraints up-front, and so the writers can end up writing a far longer / more-detailed script than the TV execs actually have time to allocate to.