18 | Voice: What It Is And How To Find It

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Some of Hollywood's greatest writers are known for their "voice" - Nora Ephron's witty female leads. Aaron Sorkin's talky, moving monologues. Charlie Kaufman's mind-bending, sardonic humor. But what IS voice? Is voice something that we need to be taught, or is it something that we already have? How do we HONE our voice? Meg and Lorien answer all of these questions and more! PLUS: Producer Jeff is taking a terrifying leap into his own lava and inviting you all to join. On Sun, Oct 25 @ 3p PT, he will be conducting a live, virtual table read of his own script he plans to direct with producers, his DP, a group of great LA-Based actors, and many many people watching. If you'd like to join, please RSVP: [email protected]. By RSVP-ing, you'll be getting a ZOOM link to join the many viewers, and a copy of the pre-pro script in it's current form. As we discussed on the show, notes aren't nessecary, but they are very welcome!

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm L'Orian McKenna. We are professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a team and separately. We've worked on studio and indie films, live action and animation. from my work on Inside Out and
0:13.8	Captain Marvel. To my work in Pixar Story Department on Up, Brave, and Inside Out.
0:17.9	We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the life.
0:23.0	Had a not only survived the ups and downs but thrives.
0:26.0	We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be
0:29.0	and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey.
0:32.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life.
0:35.3	We're so excited for you guys.
0:37.7	For this show, honestly, I'm a bit intimidated
0:40.8	because our topic is just so big,'s so large it's a big topic.
0:44.8	Yeah we're talking about voice and that's our topic for this week and I've been
0:50.0	thinking a lot about it all week and I'm really excited to hear what we have to say
0:54.9	about it. So we're talking about the voice in your writing and when people say
1:00.2	oh you you know what is your voice and do you have unique voice?
1:03.5	And what the heck does that even mean?
1:05.5	So we're going to talk about that.
1:07.1	But before we get there, we're going to do some procrastinating
1:11.1	by talking about our week. This is our week. Adventures in
1:15.4	screenwriting is what we call it.
1:16.9	Maureen, how was your week? My week was like all week so I get to the end and we do the show and you ask me this question I can only remember the last four hours so it's hard I have to look back through my book. So I think I took care of a lot of family stuff. This seemed to be the week for that. You know, I took my kid to the dentist, that kind of thing.
1:35.0	I actually, for some reason, somehow, because I'm a procrastinator, piled up a lot of, you know, agreeing to read other people's work and give them notes this week so I got to spend some time doing that.
1:47.0	I stop these were return favors all right so people had read me and so I read them and honestly it always makes me feel a little good.
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