Mastering Structure In Your Screenplay - The Screenwriting Life #6

Welcome to Ask Me Anything Screenwriter’s Edition. Join us as professional screenwriters, Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna, whose combined credits include writing and production on such films as Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur and Captain Marvel discuss the craft, journey and business of writing for the screen. From dialogue to delivery, Meg and Lorien will guide you through the process, offering inside tips and tricks to help you become the best writer you can be. And now Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna.

Writers dread the idea of feeling confined by a structure, but what they don’t realize, is that structure is one of the greatest gifts that they can be given as a writer. Structure = story, and the best films ever made know how to “play within the rules” today, we go over those rules!

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Little Miss Sunshine’s script, penned by our guest Michael Arndt, won almost every major industry award, and for good reason. Its warmth, humor, and surefooted commitment to its themes makes it one of the finest scripts written this century. And SO many of those themes show up in Act 1. Michael has become a bit “obsessed” with act 1’s lately, because it’s our chance to maximize the “rooting interest” around our hero so that our audience has no choice but to keep watching.
FOR MICHAEL’S (AMAZING) WEBSITE: https://www.pandemoniuminc.com/

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