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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

179 | Feature Film Story Engine Checklist: 8 Elements To Turn A Situation Into A MOVIE

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

STORY ENGINE. Two words we so often dread, but let's be honest: the engine of your story is what POWERS your movie. It's make, or break. And today, we break down eight elements to test whether or not you are on your way to a feature film story engine that will take you from fade in, to fade out! JOIN OUR PATREON: www.patreon.com/thescreenwritinglife.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour.

0:07.3

And I'm Lorian McKenna and before we get started with today's show we want to talk

0:11.6

about the live Q&As and story workshops. We do twice a month with our audience on a

0:15.8

website called Patreon. So when we do the story workshops, we listen to your

0:19.7

story ideas and we workshop them with you. It's really inspiring to get to hear all of your amazing

0:25.2

ideas and getting to correct, connect, connect, correct, not correct, not correct.

0:29.5

Not correct. Connect. You're never correcting. We are working with you. We are not in the business of telling you what to do, but maybe exploring ideas of how to do something a little differently.

0:39.0

Getting to do that is one of my favorite things, Meg, I think it's one of yours too.

0:43.2

Yeah, because we love the Facebook page

0:45.3

and getting to talk to you guys there,

0:46.7

but getting to actually listen to your stories

0:49.7

and help you and give you feedback

0:51.1

and ask you good questions. And I also think people learn a lot from listening to other people and the questions we ask them.

0:57.0

I know that even when we're doing it, I sometimes will be like, oh yeah, no, I need to ask myself that question.

1:02.0

Same.

1:03.0

When you were like, on one of them you were like,

1:05.0

I'm writing a Ketch a Killer show.

1:07.0

And I was like, oh, that's what my show is.

1:09.6

Get that Ketch a Killer show, even though it's not a murder mystery, it is like, and I was like, oh, okay, I need to look into that genre.

1:16.7

So like, and we can also then like find out later what's going on, did it help, did you hit a wall? You know? So it's just a great way for us to give

1:26.6

back to you guys more directly. So we wanted to let you know about it. And you can find it on, right

1:31.6

now you can find it on the now you can find it on the patreon site under the

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