What a usefull video ^^ Thank you !

Thank you for this! As a young filmmaker learning how everything works I really appreciate stuff like this!

I liked this very much. Thank you to the both of you!

Great discussion, insights, tech. Thanks for doing this!!

I've never related to a youtube video this much in my freaking life. It should be a common courtesy and the naturally empathetic thing to do by being silent during a film!!! I once debated breaking up with an ex because she wouldn't stop using her apple watch in the theater. I'm glad someone else is as solemn about this as I am.

very insightful, hoping to see this channel grow, i appreciate the wealth of (often) overlooked knowledge you let go for free and in such eloquent and educational format too!

AB is the best!

Super helpful, great points

YESSS! All of this yes.

I really love your videos! Are you on Letterboxd? I’d love to see your reviews.

Couldn't agree with this more.

I remember coming across your video on Mamet as I happened to be reading a lot about playwriting. Fast foward a few months and we seem to sync up again: I've also been writing short plays and reading from Woody Allen's one act plays (hilarious and available on amazon) to Lorca. It's a bit uncanny how we seem to be evolving so similarly. Weird coincidence or maybe just a natural step. That being said, this was a very necessary video. I'm already looking forward to the next!

I’m so glad you made this video Dean! Currently reading Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan

In high school my English teacher had us read the play of "To Kill a Mockingbird" instead of the book (Segel, Sorkin hadn't happened yet) and it was a great experience! I remember feeling so immersed in the story compared to my friends that read the novel

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" was my gateway drug to Shakespeare. You can get lost in these plays. "Antony and Cleopatra," "King Lear," "Macbeth," and of course "Hamlet" are all required reading. I'm still not sure why high school English had us begin with "Julius Caesar" though. It wasn't my favorite.

Director Ingmar Bergman split his time between the theater and film throughout most of his career. He considered the theater his wife and film his mistress. I don't know what his theater productions were like, but his films are incredible, from all the many decades he made them.

Tony Kushner is, in my opinion, the contemporary American equivalent of Shakespeare.

Maybe filmmakers will see this and perhaps this will stop the terrible writing of dialogue that has plagued us for the last 10 years or so...

Don't forget about Neil LaBute!

Martin McDonagh is one of my favourite playwrights and filmmakers and if you compare and contrast his stage and screen work you get a really good sense of how it's the same voice adapted to different mediums, I'd recommend reading The Beauty Queen of Leenane by him if you haven't already. Other recs would be Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, Sarah Kane's Blasted and Tim Crouch's My Arm

Just got it , will use with Godox QR P90T ( the travel series thats not so deep dome) . Definitely be fine as Key for interviews with 90cm softbox. FYI , the foam cut out fits perfectly into a Vanguard VEO BIB S46 case . Which will fit into the s46 hard case they make .I just found this by luck in a camera shop.

To be able to sit down with someone that experienced and pick their brain…gosh I wish. I’d kill for a mentor

I've yelled "SHUT THE F*** UP!" a handful of times and it works like a charm every time lmao

I'm feeling conflicted. I'm disappointed that you are promoting random gear instead of making the content that I normally come here for. But as a filmmaker I'm happy for you that you are getting free gear. I'm just not for these videos, they are everywhere and meaningless. Congrats on your wedding.

I agree on the missing battery option. I have the G200 and use a small Jackery in TV News. I would love a Gold Mount or a D Tap option.

Yes, yes they should read them. Why? Because he's an incredibly gifted writer. An artist has no obligation to fully align themselves with your exact political/social views. There's value in having a creative landscape represented by multiple points of view.

So "The Method" is basically deeply mindful and intentional acting?

Man, these lights seem so great. I've got a Godox VL300 and use it quite a bit, but I would love something that's more compact, lighter, and faster to set up.

Do you think this would suffice for an Intv setup or do you prefer multiple lights

Congrats 🎉 on your marriage!!

Sorry I was gone so long, I got married and then immediately got COVID.

Hi, Dean! I can fix your audio!

What have you done?

Super cool discussion! But also where can I find Joslyn’s glasses?!

People be like: oh she read 1000 scripts, Ill watch the video and learn what shes learnt....no, you mor(o)n, the actual learning comes from the reading itself, so stop the video and start reading yourself....

I didn't realize my setups were cliched before this video! Thanks so much, I learned a lot from this video

_“Screnwriting with Joslyn Jensen“_ ?? Attention to detail is key in any writing, including screenwriting.

If like, it's sort of like, you know, like, like, like, right, you know, right sort of like it is, and if those two nice people are sort of like the intellectuals of the trade who, rightfully, criticize the sort of like awful quality of like screenplay submissions, then, sort of, you know, like, definitely, like, like, I like sort of like kind of am not sort of like surprised or something that like I mean Hollywood churns out, like, kind of, I think like all these, like 1000s of hours of kind of shallow, like bird brain like bullshit all the time. What maybe NOT so much an annoying sort of like complete like waste of like time listening to you guys it like might be if you COULD speak. Like, right, kind of?

This is a great insight. I wrote my second screenplay "A Little Trouble in Hollywood" and was shopping it around Hollywood 3years back only to see the release of "Fall Guy" an almost carbon copy of my script. I was gutted. You have to let go of your good ideas for great ones. Amazing interview.

A movie's potential merit should not be decided like this. It's a VERY flawed process that is responsible for thousands of boring movies and kills cinema.

I’m interested in screenwriting having never attempted it seriously, I learned more from this video than I have in 7 years.

Loved this! She made me want to submit to Slamdance! If all the other readers care half as much as she does, it must be an excellent resource for quality feedback.

Total fart-sniffers

I do have a question. When she mentioned transitions like match cuts, I was always under the impression that transitions like that are directorial/editorial domain and are often looked down upon if done in scripts for that reason. Did she mean to like plant a match cut idea/imply a match cut, or to actually have “match cut” in the script?

Maybe screenplays are obsolete.

Good to hear this, though while I agree that a script should be well-paced and the scenes have good transitions, to me a match cut or some such transitional device, like an insert or an establishing shot is the purview of the director, just like shot other choices. Anyway, it’s of secondary importance to pacing and story as a whole.

Great talk. Congrats you two 😍

"When it really comes down to it, we pick a script written by a non-white person" Very cool.

This is chock-full of great information, thanks! For anyone interested, the film "Remains Of The Day" is a masterclass on subtext.

High value video. The guest was awesome. Ty.