Scripts and Scriptwriters’ Resources
- Simply Scripts
- Scripts & Scribes
- Daily Script
- Movie Scripts and Screenplays
- Scripts for You
- Movie Bytes
- Plot, Theme, the Narrative Arc and Narrative Patterns
- What is a Theme in Narrarive?
General Film-making Resources
- Bay Area Video Coalition
- Oakland Film Office
- San Francisco Film Commission
- San Francisco Film Society
- National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – NorCal Emmys
- SF Cutters
- SF Casting
- Nancy Hayes Casting
- Beau Bonneau Casting
Movie Lists
Film and TV
Outstanding Radio/TV/Web programming
Radio
NPR (podcasts at npr.org; some of these programs air on KQED Radio 88.5)
- Morning Edition (news, features, interviews and commentaries)
- All Things Considered (news, interviews, commentaries, reviews and offbeat features)
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Fresh Air with Terri Gross (interviews)
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This American Life (journalistic non-fiction featuring essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction and found footage)
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Forum, PBS/KQED
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Left, Right & Center, KCRW (Political, Cultural)
Television
PBS (podcasts and transcripts at pbs.org)
- Tavis Smiley (PBS TV)
- The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (world and national news, political analysis with Mark Shields and David Brooks, commentaries, essays, science, health and art beats, correspondents interview guests.)
- Frontline (investigative journalism)
- NOVA (science series)
- Charlie Rose (interviews)
- Washington Week (public affairs program using a panel discussion format)
The Daily Show (satire), Comedy Central
The Colbert Report (satirizes personality driven political pundit programs, particularly Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO
60 Minutes, CBS (investigative journalism)
NBC Meet The Press (interviews national leaders on politics, economics, foreign policy, and other public affairs)
Inside the Actor’s Studio, BRAVO (interview format followed by questionnaire)
OWN programs (Oprah Winfrey Network)
Real Time with Bill Maher. HBO
Hardball with Chris Matthews, MSNBC
Democracy Now! A DAILY INDEPENDENT GLOBAL NEWS HOUR with Amy Goodman & Juan González
Magazine
Mother Jones (nonprofit news organization that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting)
Online Resources
Bill Moyers.com (news and views unrepresented or underrepresented in commercial media)
Decisions on Deadline – Game that teaches Journalism Ethics for the Digital Age: www.decisionsondeadline.com
Comedy Resources
Further Education
Voice One (Voice-over training and Acting Workshops in San Francisco)
Voicetrax (Voice-over Training)
