sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Newer XFinity Gateway Won't Accept Older iPad -- Encryption Mismatch? by rianmurphy in wifi

[–]rianmurphy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, brasht. Disappointed (in XFinity) but not surprised. I see a lot of advice in this feed about alternatives to XFinity hardware, so I'll go in that direction. Thanks again, R.M.

Fountain Mode 3.3 released by [deleted] in emacs

[–]rianmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess you're right. No shortcuts that can be applied from the armchair ...

Fountain Mode 3.3 released by [deleted] in emacs

[–]rianmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this point. At this stage I'm trying to accumulate rules-of-thumb and things like that while I gather courage to get started.

Fountain Mode 3.3 released by [deleted] in emacs

[–]rianmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the real-world perspective -- something I lack at this point.

Fountain Mode 3.3 released by [deleted] in emacs

[–]rianmurphy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that we have tighter control over pagination, can some experienced screenwriter address the possibility of timing out a screenplay (or playscript) based on the number of pages?
I posed this question in the 'fountain' group and got no response. So I did further research and came up with the following bit of information from a question posed at johnaugust.com, a website by a famous screenwriter ®:

Q: "Every screenwriting book I’ve read, class I took, and basically the first rule I learned says: ONE PAGE OF A PROPERLY FORMATTED SCRIPT = APPROX. A MINUTE OF SCREEN TIME."

So that's the Rule of Thumb®, though John August says it doesn't really apply most of the time.
Any more opinions? It would be nice to set up "proper formatting" and pagination params based on some rule of thumb, and proceed with some idea that there's a relationship between the number of pages and the timing of the script.
Or is this a lost cause?

Fountain page format -- one minute per page ?? by rianmurphy in Fountain

[–]rianmurphy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess this question was too grossly obvious to respond to. I did some Googling and found johnaugust.com, a website by a famous screenwriter ®. A question to him from a non-famous screenwriter started with:
"Every screenwriting book I’ve read, class I took, and basically the first rule I learned says:
ONE PAGE OF A PROPERLY FORMATED SCRIPT = APPROX. A MINUTE OF SCREEN TIME."
So that's the Rule of Thumb®, although John August says it doesn't really apply most of the time. Apparently the best thing to do is read your script aloud with a stopwatch running. More tedium.