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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

3 | What Actually Is THEME In Your Screenplay?

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Theme is the essence of good storytelling, but what does it actually mean, and how does it play into screenwriting? Meg and Lorien deep dive today, and answer your questions, here on The Screenwriting Life! Welcome to The Screenwriting Life. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm L'Orian McKenna.

0:05.0

We are professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a team and separately. We've worked on studio and

0:09.7

indie films, live action and animation, from my work on Inside Out and Captain Marvel.

0:14.6

To my work in Pixar Story Department on Up, Brave, and Inside Out.

0:18.6

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 guys, welcome to the screenwriting. that you are not alone on this journey.

0:32.6

Hey guys, welcome to the screen.

0:35.4

Hey you guys, welcome to today's show.

0:38.4

As you can see, it's a little different today.

0:47.1

And with everything going on we're respecting the safer at home for the state of California and or maybe it's just LA I don't know California right?

0:51.6

Yeah. So we're going to be bringing you the show remotely from our homes.

0:57.2

I'm in my glamorous basement home office.

1:00.2

Meg, where are you?

1:01.4

I'm in my glamorous what I call the bird house because it's at the top of my, like a little attic room, which is my writing place. Today we're going to do theme because we're going to talk about our week which is going to incorporate all the

1:13.2

vulnerability that we're all feeling as writers right now given the virus but we

1:19.8

also think it's important and good to just you know get yourself back into something in

1:24.9

your craft and let's just talk about writing and we think that would be a good thing

1:29.3

to also just stay on track today so today we're going to theme. It probably won't be our only day to talk about it.

1:34.8

It's a big topic, but we'll get started today. So before we dig into that, let's talk about what we've been up to this last week or two.

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