Babz Buzz

Each month Literary Agent, Babz Bitela of Silver Bitela Agency talks soup to nuts about screenwriting.

The subject is The Shape of Things to Come – how the industry is changing.

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Babz also talks about

• Timing and Tone
• Floored by Kevin Haskin and Jason Bortz – (SimplyScripts Radio appearance)
• Waiting
• A Christmas Carol
• Fame and Success
• Things to Come
• Tron and Tron Legacy
• Props
• Inception
• Kurosawa
• Viral Media
• The Art of Regifting
• Babz Black List
  • Floored by Kevin Haskin and Jason Bortz – “Hannible Lector-esque without the Hanible Lector weirdness”
  • Long Shadow Woman by Craig Clyde (SimplyScripts Radio appearance) – Turn of the century Arizona. An outcast woman and a wounded Apache boy. One will teach. One will learn. Both will change.
  • LazerBladers by Robert Powers
  • Clause 13 by Craig Savin
  • Queen of the Mist by Richard Broadhurst

Talk about this Babz Buzz podcast on the Discussion Board

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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license^*

Music provided by Incompetech

You can subscribe to Babz Buzz as well as SimplyScripts Radio and the occasional iScript on iTunes

^*In English, this podcast can be share with others as long as you mention the site and link back, but you can’t change it in any way or use it commercially.

I’m sunning myself at a secret, undisclosed location that some may call The French Riviera of New Jersey.

I have been unable to make any updates to the site, but I thought that this video may be of use to some of the more experienced screenwriters who visit the site.

You can purchase binding supplies mentioned in this video here and here.

Babz Buzz

Each month Literary Agent, Babz Bitela of Silver Bitela Agency talks soup to nuts about screenwriting.

The subject is Coverage.

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Babz answers your questions

• Script Coverage Definition
• Brian O’Malley
• Screenplayreaders. com
• 26 Tips About screenwriting
• ScriptQuack
• RichardBroadhurst.com
• ScriptPimp
• Development Hell
• Top Gun screenplay (DailyScript)
• Jaws
• Godfather
• Kirstie Alley
• Jim Starr

Talk about this Babz Buzz podcast on the Discussion Board

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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license^*

Music provided by Incompetech

You can subscribe to Babz Buzz as well as SimplyScripts Radio and the occasional iScript on iTunes

^*In English, this podcast can be share with others as long as you mention the site and link back, but you can’t change it in any way or use it commercially.

Babz Buzz

Each month Literary Agent, Babz Bitela of Silver Bitela Agency talks soup to nuts about screenwriting.

The subject is Pitchfests. What happens at a pitchfest and why you should go?

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Babz also talks about

• Ryan Lee Trail of the Wolf – Short, Comedy – An expert werewolf hunter helps the Kent Police after an old lady gets devoured. 6 pages pdf, format
• Great American Pitchfest
• Jason Bortz
• Barbara Jackson
• InkTip
• One-Sheets

Talk about this Babz Buzz podcast on the Discussion Board

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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license^*

Music provided by Incompetech

You can subscribe to Babz Buzz as well as SimplyScripts Radio and the occasional iScript on iTunes

^*In English, this podcast can be share with others as long as you mention the site and link back, but you can’t change it in any way or use it commercially.

SimplyScripts Radio – The Haunted Doily Edition. Interview with Drew Daywalt.

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The panel talks to Drew Daywalt, screenwriter, director and producer. You can watch some of his short films on Daywalt Fear Factory. Help fund Drew’s latest short horror, NAKED – a period fantasy/horror film at IndieGoGo.

You can follow Drew on Twitter.

Show Notes

• Stark Raving Mad
• Quentin Tarantino
• Haunted Houses
• Writing Horror
• Dreams of the Witch House by H.P. Lovecraft
• Fear
• Drag Me to Hell
• Writing for Studios
• The Shining
• Daywalt Fear Factory
• Fangoria
• Wes Craven
• Horror Filmmaking tips
• Polydeus
• FEARnet
• Suicide Girl
• Ringbearer
• The Queen Mary
• Hostel
• Naked – It’s 1736 in the New World, & 2 German hunters & their Mohawk guide hunt for a hideous demon who murdered one of the German pioneer children.

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SimplyScripts Radio is produced by Michael Cornetto and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 license.

This episode the panel consisted of host, Michael Cornetto and panel members Pia and Jeff “Dreamscale” Bush

Music provided by Incompetech.com.

Interested in joining the panel? Send an email to radiosimply (at) gmail.com

Please, we’d love to have feedback on the show.

iTunes users can subscribe to the SimplyScripts feed and have the show automatically downloaded to your iPod. – Don

SimplyScripts Radio – The Independent edition. Interview with Kara Ford.

Michael and Pia, talk to Kara Ford, independent producer and director and founder of Boho Chick Productions. You can follow Kara on Twitter at BohoChickProd

Show Notes

• Heads or Tails
• Life’s Passing Me By
• Mandy.com
• Independent Production, Promotion, Festivals, and Distribution
  Short Films in general

• How Not to Make a Short Film: Secrets from a Sundance Programmer

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SimplyScripts Radio is produced by Michael Cornetto.

Music provided by Incompetech.com.

Interested in joining the panel? Send an email to radiosimply (at) gmail.com

iTunes users can subscribe to the SimplyScripts feed and have the show automatically downloaded to your iPod. – Don

SimplyScripts Radio – The “Flying by the Seat of our Pants” edition. Interview with Ron Osborn.

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Mike, Pia, Jeff (Dreamscale) and Michael talk to Ron Osborn of No BS Screenwriting.com(who has previously appeared on SimplyScripts Radio).

Show Notes

• No BS Screenwriting.com
• GlenGary GlenRoss (Script from DailyScript.com
• Butterflies are Free (1972 imdb info)
• Last Year at Marienbad (1961 imdb info)
• Following Formulas
• Syd Field
• Save the Cat
• Me and You and Memento and Fargo – How Independent Screenplays Work
• Script Reading
• Drafts
• Feeback
• 7 Week Challenge Approach
• The Art Of Dramatic Writing
• Character Arc
• Beats
• Sitcoms

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SimplyScripts Radio is produced by Michael Cornetto.

Music provided by Incompetech.com.

Interested in joining the panel? Send an email to radiosimply (at) gmail.com

iTunes users can subscribe to the SimplyScripts feed and have the show automatically downloaded to your iPod. – Don

SimplyScripts Radio – The Placeholder Edition: Interview with William (Bill) Kelly.

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Mike, Pia, Michael and Don talk to William (Bill) Kelly, writer of Blast from the Past and Enchanted on how the film Enchanted came to be, how writers are given credit for work on a script, music in film and Hot Dr Pepper.

Show Notes (makes more better sense if you’ve listened to the podcast)

• Blast from the Past
• Enchanted
• Sunil Perkash
• Salt
• WGA Screenwriting Credit System
• Ron Osborn interview and Q & A
• The “Enchanted” Rule – no more than two songs from any one film may be nominated for an Academy Award
• Hot Dr Pepper

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SimplyScripts Radio is produced by Michael Cornetto.

Music provided by Incompetech.com.

Interested in joining the panel? Send an email to radiosimply (at) gmail.com

iTunes users can subscribe to the SimplyScripts feed and have the show automatically downloaded to your iPod. – Don

SimplyScripts Radio – The Profanity Edition: Babz Bitela, Literary Agent with Silver Bitela Agency.

Rated G for conspicuous lack of profanity language

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Host Mike Shelton, along with panelists Pia, Michael Cornetto, Phil Clarke and Don talk to Literary Agent, Babz Bitela.

She has three novels in print, Severe Tire Damage: Story of a Rock Singer, Full Moon Morning: A Shanghai Survivor’s Story, and The Art of Regifting which is touted as the stocking stuffer for ‘gifters’ and ‘regifters’ alike.

Show Notes (makes more better sense if you’ve listened to the podcast)

• Toto’s agent – the band, not the dog
• Zombie Strippers
• Save the Cat
• A Logline – Verbs plus Nouns plus Irony
• The value of the Table Read
• The pitch: One piece of paper with a logline, genre, page count, have you gotten coverage, beginning, middle and end of the movie. Having Coverage is important.
• *note: WGA is NOT the reason we don’t discuss deal points, they are NOT money cops. We don’t do it as it’s TACKY…

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SimplyScripts Radio is produced by Michael Cornetto.

Music provided by Incompetech.com.

Interested in joining the panel? Send an email to radiosimply (at) gmail.com

iTunes users can subscribe to the SimplyScripts feed and have the show automatically downloaded to your iPod. – Don