I thought i´d give a monthly wrap-up of the most interesting blog-posts i read during the month. I hope to keep it up on a monthly basis…
John August holds a university wide public lecture about the topic “The Challenge of Writing in a Digital Age”.
Clive talks about a different approach a starting screenwriter could take, instead of presenting your screenplay, present your movie - do it yourself.
What do you need to prepare to pitch a show and what is a so called “bible”.
A great checklist for your screenplay that contains 61 questions to audit your script.
Clive talks about three different kinds of screenplay authors, the iconoclast, the artist and the craftsman and their different approaches to write a script.
Some thoughts from the Unknownd Screenwriter about research.
John August answers a question of a reader about the screenwriting rule “Your character has to have a goal and an opposition”.
I hope you found this little list interesting, i´ll try to keep it up as i think it´s quite useful to have an overview of the blog posts with the most valuable information.
Today i participated in a screening of Greener Pastures for a school class and after the movie we had a discussion about the topic.
Amongs the participants (besides Joana Adesuwa Reiterer and me) there was a victim of human trafficking who talked about her past and her life here in Vienna. It´s quite unbelievable that asylum seekers are not allowed to work here but they are allowed to prostitute themselves. I just want to repeat it once more: they don´t have permission to work, the only thing they are acutally allowed to do as a job is sell their body.
The reason behind it is that the authorities are quite aware of the situation of asylm seekers and that very often their last chance to survive (or pay back their dept to the person who brought them here) is prostitution. So there is some kind of id card they can get to have regular medical checks if they caught some virus or affliction. On one hand this is good for them, but just the fact that the only legal way to earn money is prostitution is so morbidly unbelievable.
But anyway, the discussion went very good, the school kids had interesting questions and i think we reached our goal with that movie: widen the eyes of people who are not aware of the situation (as well as i was not aware of it before i got involved in that project).
As previously posted i am working on a theater play together with the actor Christian Krall. The original script was written by Walter Kohl for a female actress, i adapted the script for a male actor.
The play is about a teenager with a troubled youth who’s life is mostly about drugs and hurting himself. It is quite heavy stuff, a very interesting character study about a person concerned and it sheds some light on the feelings and desires of the teenager.
The website for ritzen can be found under www.ritzen.at.
We will start to perform the play from beginning of 2008, if you are interested in the schedule you can subscribe to the newsletter on the page.
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