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Babz Buzz
Each edition Literary Agent, Babz Bitela of Silver Bitela Agency*WGA talks soup to nuts about screenwriting.
Play Babz Buzz 036
In this edition Babz talks about:
* Script Hub
* Success stories
* Ladyhawke
* Music
* The Editor
* Surprise
* The Revenant
* Copyright
* Franchises
* Agents
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
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In this edition Babz talks about:
* What Babz wants
* The end game
* Editing
* Reverse Engineering
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 034
In this edition Babz talks about:
* Year in Review
* Table reads
* Comedy
* Characters
* Songs
* Progress not Perfection
* Story
* Reading scripts
Note from Babz: This show had to be a bit more personal for me. I'm a lot more comfortable with you, my wonderful friends, and thus I really wanted to just chat with you all and I hope that's ok. REMEMBER: if you need to talk very business specific, I'm here. But with all this business, there must be LIVING!
Joining Writer Arena is free and easy. You can use Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn for easy registering and login. If you are having trouble registering please contact me. Check out the current scripts Babz is looking for here.
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Additional music: Rock Singer, Vocalist: Russ Velazquez, Composer: Jim Dessey © 1981
Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 033
In this edition Babz talks about:
* Padre
* Mike Maples
* Spec scout
* Tracking board
* Jeanne V Bowerman
* Screenwriting tips
* Richard Botto
* Stage 32
* Craft
* Voice
* Writer Arena
* Second act
* Three musketeers
* Adaptations
* Gay Comedy
* Tanya's Tips
Discuss this show here.
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Music provided by Incompetech
Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 032
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Pitches
- Being an agent
- Wordsmiting
- Deals
- Public Domain
- Prequels
- Story Ideas
- Thrillers
- Drive
- Profanity
- Like...you know?
- Noah
Discuss this show here.
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 031
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Pitches
- Jeanne Bowerman
- Ed Beach
- Vince Flynn * Babz apologizes for saying Vince Vaughn.
- Mitch Rapp
- Writing action
- Protecting your rights
- Getting Paid
- Agents
- Studio System
- Marketing
- Story structure
- Visual Screenwriting
- Winning the lottery
- Microbudget
Discuss this show here.
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 030
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Steve Wells
- Coverage
- Wordsmithing
- Tracking Board
- Networking
- Press Releases
- Marketing
- Market-Ready
- Dollar Options
- Nova
- Chris Lockhart
- Scapple
- The Biz
Discuss this show here.
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 029
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Pitching
- Copyright
- Rules for writers
- Sci-Fi
- Tracking Board
- Wild Strawberry Films
- Micro budget features
- Why Agents?
- Notes
- Mission statement
- Transition and exposition
- Subtext
- Usual Suspects
- Pacific Rim Discuss this show here.
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 028
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Why?
- Morphine
- Cliché Finder
- Carson Reeves
- Plot Twists
- WGA Stats
- Coverage
- 43 ways to Finance Your Feature Film by John Cones
- Overview of Film Finance
- The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into Film by Linda Seger
- How to develop script ideas
- Finding your voice for the page
- We see/We hear
- Tarantino
- Jack Reacher (One Shot)
- The Pot Thief Discuss this show here.
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 027
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Writer Arena*
- Plot Control 2.0
- China Moon
- Safe Men
- Greg Williams
- Beats
- Contests to Market Ready
- Through line
- Super Objective
- Scene Objective
- Character Bios
- Tiara-based Editing
- Writing Subtext: What Lies Beneath by Linda Seger
- Bates Motel
- Hooks and how to find them
- Low Budget Sci Fi
- Marketing
- The Accomplice
- The Pot Thief Series by Jessie Michael Orenduff
- Seth Green
- Open Road Publishing
- Robert Powers
- Adaptations and Buy Outs
- Hot
- Irony
- Town without Pity
Discuss this show here.
*Joining Writer Arena is free and easy. You can use Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn for easy registering and login. If you are having trouble registering please contact me. Check out the current scripts Babz is looking for here.
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 026
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Monsters dressed as clowns
- Ego
- Rewriting Cliches
- Ted Newsome
- Robert Powers
- Script: Done
- Script: Handout
- Editing
- Know your monster
- Creating Unforgettable Characters by Linda Seger
- Rain Man
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Knights Tale
- Ryan Lee
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
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In this edition Babz talks about:
- The Dip by Seth Godin
- Christmas Mail
- Old School Hollywood
- “The movie business is not reality it’s a bizarre casino with terrible odds, and pretending that you can win regularly is foolish. Play if you want, but don’t blame yourself for the silly outcomes.”
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Dena (The Box)
- Wedding Band
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- The spell ???? challenge
- Act II
- Synopsis
- Adaptations
- Syd Field – Screenplay
- High Concept
- M. Night
- Golden Moments
- Chronophobia
- 12:00/6:00 Moments
- Ted Newsome
- Everything is possible
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 024
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Scams
- Jason Bortz
- Stephen Wells
- Coverage
- Table-Read
- Read-Thru or iScript
- Agency Readers
- You’re the first person to tell me that…
- Q&A the working screenwriter
- Penitent Man
- Brother Mozart
- Long Shadow Woman
- Write the way you talk
- The ish word.
- 17000 days. How to know when to quit.
- Pia Cook
- Bret Martin
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 023
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Beating things out
- Silver/Bitela agency
- Ryan Lee
- Pia Cook
- Sacred Romance
- The Artists Way
- Dialogue
- Michael Conelly
- Lee Child
- Late into scene
- Editing
- Craig Clyde
- How do you name your characters?
- page 1, 5, 12
- Scriptshadow (The Master)
- Packaging
- The Descendants
- One Shot
- What scripts sell for…
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
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In this edition Babz talks about:
- Team Viewer
- Business Statement
- How to win friends and influence people
- Career trajectory
- Pia Cook
- Screenplay Readers
- Andrea Sims
- I’m OK you’re OK
- What makes a great story?
- Die Hard
- Script Shadow screenwriter levels
- Mutant Goldfish
- The F Bomb
- Simply Scripts
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
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In this edition Babz talks about:
- Brett Martin
- Ray Bradbury’s Kaleidoscope
- Story By Credit
- Great American Pitchfest
- Below Zero
- Signe Olynyk
- Faith-Based
- Two Handed Warriors
- The Disciple Program
- B-Story
- Tragedy and Comedy together
- Collateral
- Developing Ideas
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
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In this edition Babz talks about:
- A Doll’s Life
- Know your Theme
- Lew Hunter
- stage32.com
- Richard Botto
- sellingyourscreenplay.com
- The Black List
- Acts of Valor
- Blade Runner
- The Sixth Sense
- The B Story
- The Matrix
- Timing
- Craig Clyde
and “Danny Ocean! LMAO Not Billy. Oh, I am so funny! Danny! knew there was a ‘y’ in there….”
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
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In this edition Babz talks about:
- Christmas Mail
- Screenwriter’s Cheat Book
- Midnight in Paris
- Captain America
- The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras by Mike “Jessie” Orenduff
- It’s On the Grid
- Write what you know
- Top Production Locations
- The Help
- Exposition
- Backstory
- Scrooge
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 018
Play Jason Bortz talks about subtext
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Craig Clyde
- A Christmas Wish
- Kids Write Right and Write Right by Jan Venolia
- Inanimate Short winner Pen Pal by Rebeka Hay
- Overthinking
- Writing on Spec
- Adaptations
- Jaws
- Why I stopped reading?
- Subtext
- Godfather II
- Big Bang Theory
- Buffy
- How stories grow
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 017
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Pumpkin Nightmare
- Insidious
- The Crawling Eye
- Joe Downey
- Rhino
- Brett Martin
- Hip-pocketing
- Wets
- Option Heaven/Hell
- Martin Lancaster
- Phil Clarke
- Mafia Dogs
- Tenacity
- Hate Mail
- Grammar
- Courageous
- Why I stop reading
- Contests vs Market-ready
- Writing the second act by Michael Halperin
- The B-story
- The Through-line
- Table reads
- Subtext
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
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In this edition Babz talks about:
- The Money Line
- Production Assistants
- indiecon.com
- LifeLock
- Simply Scripts
- Web Series (three minute shorts)
- Jim Breuer, I’m not High
- Craig Sabin
- G Anthony
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
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In this edition Babz talks about:
- Lynn Christensen
- Jeannie Bowerman
- Tenacity
- Market-Ready
- Taste
- Done Deal Pro
- Screenplay Readers
- Save the Cat Software
- George Clooney
- Horror
- Django Unchained
- Zombie Playground
- One Shot
- AMC Show Notes
- Layers
- Ryan Lee
- Martin Lancaster
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 014
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Pitchfest
- Brett Martin
- Dories
- Some Writers Deserve To Starve by Elaura Niles
- How to Write It, How to Sell It: Everything a Screenwriter Needs to Know About Hollywood by Linda Palmer
- 500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader: Writing the Screenplay the Reader Will Recommend by J Lerch
- How to Sell Your Screenplay: A Realistic Guide to Getting a Television or Film Deal by Lydia Wilen
- Fearless
- Theme and Alter Ego
- Kill Bill 1 and 2
- Revolutionary Road
- The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor by Larry Moss
- Hello, He Lied — and Other Tales from the Hollywood Trenches by Lynda Obst
- Trickle-down marketing
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Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 013
In this edition Babz talks about:
- SellingYourScreenplay.com WritingTreatments.com Lethal Weapon Shutter Island Dialogue * Table Reads * The Business * Using Dreams * How to win friends and influence people* Inktip Pitch Summit – July 22 at the Marriott in Burbank, California, USA
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Music provided by Incompetech
Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto
Play Babz Buzz 012
In this edition Babz talks about:
- Mock pitch
- Action
- Dirty Dozen
- Lee Marvin
- Tenacity
- Skeezer
- Characters
- Super 8
- Market-Ready
- Throw Mama from a Train
- Tower Theatre
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Music provided by Incompetech
Babz Buzz is produced by Michael Cornetto