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Sir this is pure good deed! Thank you so much for simply deciding to share such invaluable advice and knowledge about screenwriting FOR FREE!

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Dear sir, what happened to some of your videos? I could not find them anymore.

Thank you for this video and your mentioned of Modern Family made me want to watch the entire series again. Damn

Outstanding stuff. But how would this be realized in the script? How do you lay out this kind of visual scene in the script without appearing to step one the director's toes?

So much gems in this video! Thank you !!!!!!!

This is some of the best screenwriting advice I’ve ever seen. Thank you, a thousand times, thank you!

We were missing you!! I hope everything was sorted out okay. Happy holidays, and thank you again for this wonderful class.

Welcome back, Andy! More gold nuggets amongst the pearls. Thank you.

Top stuff, Andy

Good to see you again. Thank you!

I am a Brazilian writing beginner. I started watching your videos yesterday and I'm already on episode 4. Please keep posting episodes, it's helping me a lot.

Watched an interview of demond wilson where he said that him and redd foxx both had pistols on them at all times during the show incase someone in the audience tried something violent. Have you known actors or directors on TV shows to carry concealed?

The best part of a show is when characters reflect on their lives. A great example of this is the TV movie lonesome dove which has many places where the characters stop and take stock of their past. I always thought a second title for that movie could have been REGRET, since almost every character had heavy regrets to contend with

Great info! I learned a lot, thank you!

Great to have you back! This is great stuff as always and it brings up a few questions. What defines characters and situations that are “bigger than life?” Why would MASH the film be bigger than life, but not MASH the TV show? Or Gunsmoke vs any western film? How does one devise a TV show that is life-size, but not pedestrian or common place and allow for escalation? Does life-size still hold true for streaming shows which only seem to cast movie stars. These are the same actors who used to be bigger than life screen actors (Nicole Kidman seems to be in a lot of streaming shows for some reason) . Thank you!

Thank you so much Andy for this brilliant insight into writing for television.I've been writing for movie screenplay and attempted to write a screenplay for TV and failed miserably. Will try to attempt again keeping your tips in mind. Would appreciate more writing techniques for daily soaps.Welcome back love your podcast.

Speaking of communal theater experience, heres a few stories. A few years before i was born, my dad was at the drive in theater where he met and was talking to a girl that had known his older brother who had been not long before killed in a car wreck. Her boyfriend came out of the snack shack and saw them talking in the parking lot. The ol man started to walk away when he heard the boyfriend holler from a distance. Not knowing anything was wrong, the ol man turned and looked just in time for a beer bottle, which as thrown by her angry, jealous boyfriend, to hit him right in the mouth. My mom took me to the theater to see the move Sheena. There were mostly empty seats. We were sitting down in the first third of them when two 20 something year old guys behind us said, "man look at the tits on her" (meaning Sheena) My mom got offended and jumped up and stomped off and sat down several seats behind the two guys. I stayed where i was and heard the one guy say, "dang do you think we pissed her off?" My mom took me to see ET. She invited my dads mom to meet us there. Me and mom walked in and sat down to wait. It was quite crowded, but there was an open seat next to us. Then grandma walks in, sees us sitting there, but then made an odd choice and decided to walk down farther and sit separate from us surrounded by people she didnt know. So we had no sense of what she thought as the movie played. Grandma was an old negative german crab type person. The movie ended and the light came on and people started walking out. As we got closer to meeting grandma in the isle, she hissed, "that was such bullshtt!" It was the last night that the western movie open range was showing. I went to see it by myself. Including me, there were exactly 7 people in the theater. I had walked in a little late and sat in the very back row as i have always done when i went to a movie on my own. The other 6 people were sitting way down front and did not see me walk in and had no idea i was there. I was wearing a stetson cowboy hat as i did everywhere i went and thought nothing of it. I always like to watch till the credits and music are done, which also lets the crowd get out of my way as most people seem to make a mad rush to the doors and the parking lot. But with only 6 people, i thought getting out of here will be no problem. Well, i was wrong. There was soon to be a massive 6 person traffic jam at the theater door. I started to walk toward the isle as the other 6 people walked up the same isle. We all met near the door at about the same time. I had timed it so that they would already be through the door by the time i got there. But upon seeing me, they all stopped and stared at me. Then some started to point at me and say, "look at him, look" while snickering at me. At some point, i said, uhh can we keep moving? Can we go now, as i gestured with my hands to help move them along like a herd of cattle.

Andy thank you so much. Can you please to cover Documentary topic from the same angle based on cameras, type of show and how screenplay will be different for this form? Also if you can please cover also Domestic crime shows structure. Thank you in advance

I thought you quit!! I’m glad to see you’re back giving us amateurs gems! Can’t wait for the pilot writing class!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾

Andy, so glad you are back! The owner of the best screenwriting channel on the internet! I make short films and hearing your insight is entertaining, inspiring, and helpful for my own short screen plays! I hope the family is doing well, and aspiring writers are glad to have you back in our corner!

Thanks Andy. So glad you are back!

Welcome back! The internet just got smarter and brighter! Thank you!

Great to have you back! I checked a few times to see if you'd uploaded but YT had failed to notify me. Great video as usual.

What I don't like about Television Writing is that almost always is too on the nose

So excited! Was scared you stopped.

Welcome back Andy !

In the UK MASH was broadcast without the laugh track. Samples of MASH with the laugh track was no joke :-)

William Shatner was total Z movie fodder :-)

Finally!

i still love you!

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What is better than fantastic? That's the word for Andy's series of videos. Andy, thanks so much for sharing your insight and wisdom.

im from India and came here recommended by the efx TH-cam channel, and i truly am glad and grateful i stumbled upon your honestly good and on point course.

i'm loving this. Thank you, Andy. You know you're in good hands when the TH-cam tutorials are being delivered by a bearded old man.

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Patiently waiting for episode 19 !

I remember being distracted by Ben Affleck wardrobe in live by night. Couldn't tell you what all else was wrong with that movie.

Heard you on Pod Meets World...

Pod meets world got me here. I Love this video series. I'm hoping it goes into pilot writing and pitching etc.

Came because of Pod Meets World - stayed and subbed for the quality.

Shout out to @Expert Fx channel. They suggested me this channel with Great Informative videos and really good Teacher to teach the needed things for Better Movies

Your videos feel like a proper film school lecture each time. I feel very lucky to have found your channel. You make things make sense in ways I haven't encountered before. And you give such great, relevant examples with the clips you choose. And also, I personally really appreciate how all-inclusive your messaging is, demographically. Thank you so much for sharing all this wisdom and insight, Andy. Thank you.

You are full of dripping wisdom. I have learnt a lot. Keep up.

From EFX!!!❤

as a young student that has a love for filmmaking this series is perfect. I have watched every single one of them! Currently making my own little short animated movie. I'm using everything I have learned and try to create a thrilling short story! Thanks for all of this!

LAPD is about to reopen a cold case in Hollywood😄😄😄😄 Invaluable advice as always. Thank you.

Hey Andy. Thank you for your knowledge. Is there any chance you will continue to produce new videos?

I heard this quote a long time ago and what Andy says here echos it: Comedy is Tragedy with Distance. How many things have happened to you and in the moment they were really terrible and felt tragic. Yet, you laugh about them years later. Tig Notaro made apt use of the irony of this in here breakthrough comedy routine "Hello, I Have Cancer".

Looking at Lost In Translation, I can't help but think maybe it's not a coincidence that Sofia set it in Tokyo. It seems to aspire more to the "framework" of the Japanese construct of Kishotenketsu, in that as you say it flows through an experiential "slice of life" lens which in turn makes it much more akin to anime, such as "Non-Non Byori" and "Amanchu".. Would you agree?