Creative Spark: John August

[@nylagirl2000]

He's really wonderful and so generous in what he shares about his process. I love his Scriptnotes podcast.

[@EduardRekker]

This could also be a commercial for whiteboards. I want one now. And.. of course that flashy keyboard.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

I had a 200 foot white board in my board room when I ran a company...fun times...

[@CourtBoy]

Me too 😂😂

[@buknar456]

I love this man, script notes, fountain, creative spark....endless inspiration......now, dis-a...what's the word?

[@papa2000ism]

He's the screenwriter in the next aladdin live-action. SUPER !!!! :D

[@kevinaltman7730]

I've loved all these "Creative Spark" videos. Please make more! They're incredibly inspirational.

[@MurphyStudebaker]

fantastic series ya'll are doing!

[@キラキラくりくり頭]

Several amazing writers actually do pretty much the opposite. They just start with a premise and see where it leads them. Stephen King does it that way. Hayao Miyazaki literally starts by drawing things and seeing if he can string them together.

[@legitpropaganda]

Wow this is really great stuff. Especially the whiteboard technique - so true!

[@HipHopMovieNews]

A Mad scientist at work. Thanks for bringing us into John's world. Very interesting. That keyboard thing is nuts.

[@MartinJablonski]

pretty sure this will be talked about on the next scriptnotes podcast

[@juanvalladares1965]

I Love the movie The Big Fish, Its fantastic

[@Elezaac]

Those creative sparks videos are awesome!

[@Ndo01]

Time to watch big fish.

[@timothyorchard]

Anyone know what program he's using at 4:36? He writes a question in double brackets and it looks as though a link is created, which I presume will be a document he will write later. I do a lot of roughing out in Pages and would really value a feature like this.

[@timothyorchard]

***** Great :) Thanks for that!

[@LalaHemingway3000]

+Selene I just bought Final Draft 9, and I am loving it!

[@LaPingvino]

He uses Fountain, a syntax system he co-created himself. the [[-syntax is to add notes to the script. The syntax can easily be converted to PDF, Final Draft format and so on. The program he uses is probably Highland or Slugline, one of the programs made for MacOS to work intelligently with Fountain scripts, although you can use any editor you want with Fountain. Fun fact: I watched this video specifically to see Fountain in action in that scene. I think it's not well known enough for what it does, it can save you a lot of money and safe your face by learning about correct formatting early on.

[@bec1681]

Loads of great tips here although the one that blew me away was writing the scenes out of sequence.

[@leif1075]

Who wrote the music in this?? I hope someone can PLEASE tell me.

[@Therusk87]

I'm sure I saw that keyboard somewhere in the new Star Wars trailer.

[@niksiever3135]

Love his podcast

[@aaronying4989]

Wow how do you type on a keyboard like that?? Incredible

[@fidelhviegas]

Wow! I do what he does, but on paper or the pc screen. Nice!

[@shonaassang1053]

do you have an original about documentary filmmaking? that would be awesome to see.

[@notcooljustlame]

Woah

It's going to take me like a week to assimilate these five minutes.

[@beyondcinema]

I need that keyboard!!! My wrists are sufferin from tendonitis frm all the typing

[@Brainstrain]

Standing Desk Cameo

[@Robin6000]

Great stuff! Weirdest keyboard I have ever seen tho ^^

[@imsofinite]

Huh, he doesn't sound bald.

[@catpin]

I really like Corpse Bride.

[@rodolforodriguez4447]

There no such thing as too many ideas

[@johnwesson2759]

He was not blessed with looks

[@gnosjo]

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