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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

145 | Our Biggest Lessons From Being On Set (Pt. 2)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Hi all! Today, Savana and Jeff revisit their conversation from part one of their conversation about SET! Today we discuss some of the most essential vocabulary and set dynamics that you need to understand before you take the plunge! For internship inquiries, email [email protected] with the subject line INTERN, and include a cover letter and resume. Please note that we are only considering credit-eligible students! To join our Patreon: www.pateron.com/thescreenwritinglife

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0:00.0

Hey TSL fan, producer Jeff here and I wanted to let you know that we are looking to staff up our fall intern class.

0:06.0

My co-producer Savannah and I are really proud of what we've built over in our internship program.

0:10.0

Among other duties and opportunities, you'll get the chance to shadow live tapings with Megan Lorian and our guests and take show notes and make production suggestions.

0:20.0

And you'll be kind of helping develop the social media wing of our show so it's a great

0:23.7

chance to be creative interact with Megan Lorian and kind of get to know a behind

0:27.6

the scenes look at podcasting. If you are a credit eligible student and

0:31.6

you're interested in an internship with us, go ahead and email the screenwriting life at gmail.com with the subject line intern and attach a resume.

0:39.0

And as I mentioned, at this time, we're only considering credit eligible students so

0:43.2

please note that before you apply. Thanks so much and enjoy the show. Hey TSL fan

0:48.7

producer Jeff here excited to bring you part two of our multi-part series on lessons that we've learned on set.

0:54.7

Meag and Lorraine were in pretty intense writing deadlines during this week so it is just

0:58.2

Savannah and I and if you haven't listened to part one that was episode 130

1:02.0

released at the end of March so it's a nice precursor to this episode.

1:05.0

Today we primarily cover what's actually happening on set, what those action calls mean before a take actually starts,

1:11.0

and then finally some remaining terminology that we didn't get to go over

1:14.4

in part one that just serves as an important base of language for you to understand what people are talking

1:19.5

about on a set so we hope you enjoy the episode and have a great week.

1:23.0

For anyone who's watched movies about TV or film,

1:26.0

you've probably seen the director say action,

1:29.0

which is one of the many things that a director will say

1:31.0

as they prep for a scene, but I think like in general what we'd like to do is just sort of walk you all through like what a set is what it looks like and what's actually happening on sets so pictures up settle sound, what all of this means,

1:43.3

just to kind of give you an idea if you're actually on set

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