Hong Kong Screen Writers' Circle Newsletter 7th August 2009
CONTENTS:
* SCREENWRITERS WORKSHOP
* GET PRODUCED
* MAJOR HK PRODUCTION COMPANY SEEKING INTERNS
* TEACH YOURSELF SCREENWRITING: The Movie
* SCREENPLAY LIBRARY
If you wish to tell us about your Hong Kong film projects, please send your
information to lwgray@netvigator.com
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About our publications
The HKWC has published four critically acclaimed anthologies of short
stories - Haunting Tales, Sweat & the City, Hong Kong Whodunnits and Love &
Lust - which are available at selected Dymocks bookstores and from our
website. Read more at:
http://www.hkwriterscircle.com/Publications/Publications.html
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* SCREENWRITERS WORKSHOP
The next screenwriters’ workshop will take place at the Fringe Club,
upstairs, on the 25th August, 7pm-9pm. We will have Andrew Caro, film
producer, screenwriter, director and all round techie, come and talk to us
about developing film projects from the script to the shoot and also talk
about his experiences with the legendary Red Camera… one of which he owns!
Hong Kong Writers’ Circle members get in for free, whereas everyone else
pays HK$100, unless of course you join on the door.
RSVP
Lawrence Gray
The Hong Kong (Screen)Writers' Circle
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* GET PRODUCED
Write a film script about the Hong Kong Writers’ Circle! It should be
somewhere between 3 to 10 minutes long, so that it can fit on Youtube, be
capable of being shot with next to no budget, and be entertaining and
informative.
You can write it as a documentary, or a sit-com, or an opera or whatever you
like! It must be shootable though and it must make me laugh! And I mean
laugh in a good way. And it should make you want to be part of the Writers’
Circle and consume all the creative output of the membership… or at least
some of if!
ALL ENTRANTS will get Three Months free membership of the Writers Circle and
the winner will get a full twelve months free membership and the pleasure of
having their script produced and shot in Hong Kong.
The deadline is the end of October.
Hint: with a short film, the concept is everything! A good, clever idea
taking advantage of the nature of the medium has more impact than something
that is no more than talking heads, no matter how witty their dialogue.
I am the judge, jury and executioner of this, so you have to suck up to me
and pander to my taste for beautiful actresses and heavy doses of irony. And
please, write it as a script and not a piece of masterly prose. (If you’re
not sure how, check out the videos based upon my old friend Ray Frensham’s
Teach Yourself Screenwriting Book – links below.)
Want a sample of good piece of You Tube promo? Head off to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmXi2-SjkOQ
Simon Yin and his team get better every time I watch them.
Send your entries to lwgray@netvigator.com
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* MAJOR HONG KONG PRODUCTION COMPANY SEEKING INTERNS
This is a part-time position, and duties include :
Reading and analysing scripts
Screening and assessing films
Attending and note-taking acquisition and production meetings
General clerical duties as needed
If you want to get a foot in (or through!) the door of the movie industry,
they would like to meet you.
It's more of learning than an earning experience, but if you have time and
interest, please email me lwgray@netvigator.com and I will pass your details
on.
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* TEACH YOURSELF SCREENWRITING: The Movie
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-format-your-film-script
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-format-scenes-in-a-film-script
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-describe-action-in-a-film-script
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-format-dialogue-in-a-film-script
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-get-feedback-on-your-script
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* LIBRARY OF ON LINE SCREENPLAYS
http://www.screenplays-online.de/
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