Hello Everyone,
Hope you are all well.
I was very fortunate to work with Mike Leigh some years ago, and attended some sessions he did with Drama Centre actors in London. As I was writing radio and theatre drama at that time, and knew both Leigh (from a documentary I had made about him) and the actors (some of my best friends), I was invited in to develop a script from those sessions for my own professional development. They remained as working documents over a period of time, and were fundamentally about finding structure and editorial, which combined Leigh's intentions as a deviser / director and the working practices of the actors trained in some of the processes of the Stanislavskian method. I learned a lot from it, and it very much chimed with the work of Keith Johnstone and Clive Griffin, which was being used for a lot of Youth Theatre productions at the time, most particularly work produced by the National Youth Theatre at the Shaw. I ended up doing quite a lot of devised theatre accordingly, and looking back, it is interesting to recall how we used recording devices, group negotiation, and developing drafts before reaching the final script, that would almost invariably change in the heat of performance !
Anyway, I was reminded of a 'good old days' moment, and thought I would share it with you !
Thanks and Best Wishes,
Paul
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From: Screenwriting Research Network [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Siri Senje [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 27 September 2012 13:39
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Subject: Re: Improvised Screenplays in the UWS "Studio Lab" Project.
Dear Stuart,
thanks for this interesting information about Studio Lab! I look
forward to more news as it develops.
As you probably know, screenwriter Dr Christina Kallas runs
improvisation workshops with actors for screenwriters in New York.
Very interesting work - check out the blog and webpage if you havenīt
already.
I will be completing my practice-based doctorate in Screenwriting at
the Norwegian Film School this Autumn, and the final phase of my
research is a development workshop with actors on one of the two
original scripts I have written as part of the doctoral work.
Best of luck to you all!
Siri
Siri Senje
Stipendiat, Kunstnerisk Utviklingsarbeid
The Norwegian Fellowship Programme for Artistic Research
Den Norske Filmskolen
4795129161
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Den 27. sep.. 2012 kl. 10.43 skrev Stuart Hepburn:
> I thought the network might like to read about the launch of the
> Studio Lab project at University Of The West Of Scotland . The
> project is designed to devise a one hour studio-based screenplay for
> level 10 BA (Hons) Contemporary Screen Acting students.
> In a 12 week process, the screenplay will be entirely generated by
> the improvisational work of a core of 12 actors. I will be exec
> producer and ensure that the material is sculpted and edited into a
> final agreed shooting script, and then recorded in our TV studio.
> Think of it as Mike Leigh in a studio.
> http://wp.me/py33J-lS
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>
> Stuart Hepburn
> Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting & Performance
> Room 2.006,
> School of Creative & Cultural Industries
> University of the West of Scotland
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> ] On Behalf Of Vercauteren Hugo [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 27 September 2012 07:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Frequent words and phrases in television dialogue
>
> For practitioners, this is a very remarkable and useful study,
> Monika. Certainly for non English speaking writers, who want to try
> to write in English and avoid expensif translations.
>
>
>
> There should be more studies like that.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Hugo
>
>
>
>
> Op 27-sep-12, om 06:09 heeft Monika Bednarek het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've compiled a list of frequent words and phrases in contemporary
>> US television dialogue - in case any of you are interested, you can
>> access this here:
>>
>> http://www.monikabednarek.com/8.html
>>
>> This is based on transcripts (rather than scripts), so should
>> reflect what characters actually utter on screen (the data that I
>> worked with do not include any language other than the dialogue).
>>
>> Monika
>
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