John and Craig partake in another installment of How Would This Be a Movie? Which story is destined for the big screen: The millennial mother with her surprise, Youtube-guided childbirth? The couple that has the same fight for decades? The Japanese families-for-hire?

We also follow up on the logic of multi-cam formatting, Georgia’s success in diversifying crews through training programs, and effective character descriptions.

Tickets are now on sale for our next Scriptnotes Live Show on Tuesday, May 22nd at the ArcLight in Hollywood, with guests including Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan of Westworld.

Links:

* Our next live Scriptnotes will be Tuesday, May 22nd at the ArcLight in Hollywood. Tickets are on sale now -- proceeds benefit Hollywood HEART, which runs special programs and summer camps for at-risk youth.
* How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described in Their Screenplays by Kyle Buchanan and Jordan Crucchiola for Vulture
* Woman tells incredible story of how she used YouTube videos to carry out waterbirth of own baby she doubted she even had, while alone in hotel room written by Tom Embury-Dennis for The Independent
* The Worrywart vs. the Zen Master by Tom Bowman and Brigid Schulte for Slate
* Japan’s Rent-A-Family Industry, written by Elif Batuman for The New Yorker
* Choir!Choir!Choir! is a choir in Toronto that meets once a week for drop-in singing events.
* QTAKE Monitor is an app that lets you watch shots on set from your own device.
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* The USB drives!
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* Craig Mazin on Twitter
* John on Instagram
* Find past episodes
* Outro by Nicolas Curcio (send us yours!)

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