April 25th, 2016 | by KT | screenwriting
Apr
25
For the longest time I’d been resistant to the idea of putting up a page listing some of the well-known users of Fade In. People kept saying “You should do this!” And I kept saying “Well…” and not doing it.
April 3rd, 2016 | by KT | filmmaking, movies
Apr
03
This is the soundtrack for Bull, an independent feature I wrote and directed once upon a time. I also did the music and, since it was just sitting around on a hard drive and it occurred to me that a soundtrack isn’t much good if it isn’t getting listened to, here it is in case anyone is interested in doing that. It might (might!) actually make for half-decent background writing music. Or something.
September 15th, 2015 | by KT | filmmaking, screenwriting
Sep
15
What The Black List is doing with their table reads podcast is pretty interesting, and I thought I’d give a little glimpse into what that experience was like for me and CHROME NOIR.
June 28th, 2015 | by KT | general, screenwriting
Jun
28
The Black List — the website run by the folks behind the annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood — has recently begun a podcast where selected scripts are performed as table reads.
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May 13th, 2015 | by KT | filmmaking, screenwriting
May
13
Ever since I made Fade In, and ever since professional screenwriters discovered it and ever since they’ve started using it and liking it and preferring it, there’s always been the caveat that for whatever reason (which we’ll get to), and depending on what level of production you’re working at, you might have to eventually finish in Final Draft. Because the producer wanted it. Or because the studio said you had to. And it wasn’t really that much of a big deal because Fade In exports niftily to a Final Draft document. But still, the reason people were using Fade In in the first place was because they thought it was better, and it sort of sucked to have to thunk things down to the older, less ideal format to finish up.
Yeah. Well. You don’t have to do that anymore.
September 22nd, 2014 | by KT | filmmaking, screenwriting
Sep
22
Following up on my earlier post about my experience with putting a script up on the Black List website, there have been a couple of things I’ve been asked, things I forgot, numbers that could be filled in, etc.:
September 14th, 2014 | by KT | filmmaking, screenwriting
Sep
14
A quick bit of catch-up for those who don’t know what the Black List is: Almost ten years ago, Hollywood development executive Franklin Leonard started (anonymously, at first) compiling an annual list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year. His industry-insider survey of fellow development people quickly became an eagerly anticipated yearly announcement — even outside the industry, including considerable attention from the mainstream media. Then, a couple of years ago, the Black List umbrella was expanded to include a website where screenwriters could upload their work to be read and evaluated by accredited Hollywood professionals.
March 1st, 2014 | by KT | screenwriting
Mar
01
The topic of screenplay pagination has come up a few different times in a few different places recently. No, really, it has. The explanation of things from Fade In’s point of view has been sitting half-typed on my laptop for a couple of weeks, so I thought I’d get it finished up and posted here.
February 8th, 2014 | by KT | screenwriting
Feb
08
On John August and Craig Mazin’s Scriptnotes podcast, a recent subject of discussion was screenwriting software development. They solicited feedback from listeners, which got me, as a listener who has a little experience with the subject, thinking about a few things for which I could possibly provide some additional clarification and particularity.
January 3rd, 2014 | by KT | screenwriting
Jan
03
Happy New Year!
But maybe I should stop doing this. If I really wanted to keep things short (and yet still completely accurate), this year’s State of the Screenwriting Software Art could be something along the lines of: “Not a whole lot has changed from last year.” And if I wanted to get extra wordy: “Or the year before that.” With the exception of Fade In, no other professional screenwriting software has seen a whole lot of new in recent years.
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