Screenwriting

After all the debate and strikes, we can all agree mostly that AI has and will be taking many jobs away. It sucks and since I've been in this business about a decade now I've personally seen my friends suffer from having less jobs in an industry they love more than anything. It sucks.

However, I thin...

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However, I think the problem isn't AI itself. The problem is when companies allow AI to take jobs away. I will fully admit I use AI every single day. But don't be too quick to judge me. I NEVER use it to fully write a script because I'm lazy or uncreative. I NEVER use it to take another actors job away by creating an AI generated video because I want to save money by not hiring an actress. These are things that I am fully against.

When I want to write a script. I come up with the ideas myself. Where AI helps me is when I don't have the knowledge or foresight that an academy award winning actress has. I don't have the knowledge of a Steven Spielberg who could write a script on his worst day that's better than the best piece I've ever written. So I ask AI to completely critique every aspect of my script until I rewrite and rewrite and eventually I realized I worked out all the details with a little help.

I recently watched season 6 of Cobra Kai and I'm not gonna spoil anything for people who haven't seen it but there's a brief scene where they used AI but did it the proper way. They asked the actor's family if it was okay as well as keeping that scene in a dream sequence so it didn't take another actor's job away. That is something I respect and it's how I think AI should be used. In small amounts. And ensuring it doesn't take a job away. It simply enhances OUR ideas and helps work with us to make them better! Because we aren't all going to be Quentin Tarantino. We need help sometimes.

Hey everyone! I wanted to congratulate our fellow community members who had scripts requested through Stage 32 pitch sessions over the last 2 weeks. We are thrilled for the opportunities for the following writers to have their scripts requested by Citizen Skull, Happy Place Productions, 831 Entertai...

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Michael Dzurak

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7 days ago

CGI didn't make stuntmen (and others on set) obsolete. AI won't do so either. It's a tool, albeit an influential one so it will cause changes. Good and bad but changes.

Maurice Vaughan

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- Ashley Renee Smith
1 week ago

Hi, Curt Samlaska. Silo is on my watch list. I know about 0% of the story, and I like it that way when I watch something new (sometimes). I'll be taking notes when I watch it....

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Curt Samlaska

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1 week ago

Maurice...I know you are going to love it, from the opening scene, it just takes off. The characters are so well developed and it is such a dystopian world with unending questions... Don't wait too long! Worth seeing...

Paul Rivers

Curt Samlaska I enjoy Silo too. I have been looking to see how they do the special effects because the silo just seems to be so huge. The set lighting and color is so subdued, it is almost like a char...

Ashley Renee Smith

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- Maurice Vaughan
1 week ago

This is one of my favorite series currently! It’s officially been renewed for season 3 and 4, then it’s ending on their terms. I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds. It’s one of my dad’s favorite boo...

Mary Casanova

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- Maurice Vaughan
1 week ago

Stunning and encouraging!! Bravo!!

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1 week ago

40 script requests and 31 meeting requests! Wow! Congratulations, everyone!

Jim Boston

Kudos, kudos, and MORE kudos to the writers who got those script requests and meeting requests!

Phil Parker

Well done to all!

Congratulations, everyone!

Debbie Elicksen

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1 week ago

That's so great Maria Brogna when someone is real and doesn't sugarcoat the truth. It helps us immensely when we are going into something completely out of our comfort zone....

G.Smokey Campbell

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1 week ago

Happy for you. Thx. for the share.

Maria Brogna

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1 week ago

Debbie Elicksen absolutely. It falls in that "work smarter not harder" place for a writer like me. My day job doesn't allow for whimsy and must be focused for a specific audience that isn't there to h...

Sandra Isabel Correia

It’s so good when we find a professional that can give us the right direction and align with us! I am really happy for you Maria Brogna and thanks for sharing David McInerney recommendation. Will be h...