3 | What Actually Is THEME In Your Screenplay?
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna
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🗓️ 21 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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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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