{"id":489,"date":"2009-07-30T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-07-30T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T08:00:52","slug":"point-click-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Point &#038; Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kinda flat out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>PostmodernBarney<\/b> has an adorable array of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postmodernbarney.com\/2009\/04\/uncomfortable-plot-summaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">uncomfortable plot summaries<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,25849265-16947,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">interesting article<\/a> over the ditch about the journey of multihyphenate <a href=\"http:\/\/serhatcaradee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Serhat Caradee<\/a> who, despite having a developed script and a few short films, found he had to shoot &#8216;pilot scenes&#8217; to attract funding.  (Fedora-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/eyeswiredopen.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/making-demo-recording.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lynden Barber<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>If, <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/box-watch-battlestar-galactica-seasons-1-4\/\">like me<\/a>, you found <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a>&#8216;s final moments wanting, to quote the late King of Pop, <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.4brad.com\/battlestar\/battlestars-daybreak-worst-ending-history-screen-science-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">you are not alone<\/a>.  (Fedora-tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/complicationsensue.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/brad-ideas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Epstein<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The <i>National Post<\/i> has a cautionary tale about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/story-printer.html?id=a39d8e41-61f6-4ae6-ba2a-171045a5a96f\" target=\"_blank\">four acts<\/a> of a television series&#8217; life.  (Fedora-tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/teevee\/mainfeed\/~3\/lsDta2VeoNQ\/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-a-tv-series-volume-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Boychuk<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>After a looong period of radio silence (hey, he was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/index.html?curid=6814897\" target=\"_blank\">busy<\/a>), <b>Josh Friedman<\/b> has lately thrown up <i>two posts<\/i> in as many months.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>An excellent <i>New York Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/14\/movies\/14raff.html?_r=1&#038;ref=movies\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> explores the seduction and corruption of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graham_Greene\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Greene<\/a> by the silver screen.  (Try <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.gossip.celebrities\/browse_thread\/thread\/07578a5e2ae10a83\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> if that NY Times link doesn&#8217;t work.)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>And English playwright <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Edgar_(playwright)\" target=\"_blank\">David Edgar<\/a> has a brill&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/jul\/11\/drama-edgar-plays-theatre\" target=\"_blank\">extract<\/a> from his book, <i>How Plays Work<\/i>, in <i>The Guardian<\/i>.  (Fedora-tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/writersguild.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/david-edgar-how-plays-work.html\" target=\"_blank\">WGGB Blog<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinda flat out. PostmodernBarney has an adorable array of uncomfortable plot summaries. There&#8217;s an interesting article over the ditch about the journey of multihyphenate Serhat Caradee who, despite having a developed script and a few short films, found he had to shoot &#8216;pilot scenes&#8217; to attract funding. (Fedora-tip: Lynden Barber.) If, like me, you found &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Point &#038; Click&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4,6,23],"tags":[60,86,87],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-point-click","category-scriptwriting","category-television","category-theatre","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-graham-greene","tag-josh-friedman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}