Being the screenwriter on set is fun as long as you know what you’re in for. If this was a Mozart symphony production, the screenwriter would be the composer and the director would be the conductor. It’s up to the conductor to translate Mozart’s scribbles on paper into music for the ears, music created by…
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Serendipity and Synchronicity at FiLMLaB 2014
COUNTDOWN TO FiLMLaB COMPETITION!
FiLMLaB’s Script to Screen Competition Closes at Midnight, March 1, 2014. Thanks to all of you who came to the Open House last Feb 8 to check out our set location. Whoever wins the FiLMLaB script to screen competition will have his/her script filmed at the Willamette Writers’ Cynthia Whitcomb House in West Linn! Contest Closes this…
FiLMLaB Open House
On Sunday, February 9th, 2014, from 2-5 pm, Willamette Writers and Ampersand Productions will host an Open House at the Cynthia Whitcomb House for Writers. This will give all of our screenwriters a chance to visit the site where the FiLMLaB Script to Screen Competition will be filmed. You’ll have an opportunity to explore the individual writing…
A Quick Preview of 2014 FiLMLaB Script to Screen Competition
Before I can tell you guys anything about the latest and greatest FiLMLaB script to screen competition, I first need to say thank you to Ruth Witteried. I know I have ginormous shoes to fill. I hope I can do half the job you have done these last few years. *Sniff* Okay, let’s get down to…
A Winner Weighs In On FiLMLaB
A Winner Weighs in on FiLMLaB by Barbara Thomas First, I’d like to thank Ruth Witteried for the opportunity to blog about my conference experience. It’s a second draft, so to speak, of all the not-terribly-eloquent things I said during the Willamette Writers Conference. Throughout the weekend I was asked “How does it feel to watch…
A FiLMLaB Inspiration
by Ruth Witteried The second annual FiLMLaB short, Inspiration, made its debut last Friday night at the Willamette Writers Conference. Scheduled from 7-9 pm, I spent most of the hours preceding it worrying whether author Barbara Thomas would actually arrive in time for her own premier! Flying in from Dallas that afternoon, with…
We Made a Hat!
When I got the call back in May that my script had won the FiLMLaB competition, I was ecstatic. FiLMLaB offers what I consider the most rewarding prize possible; the opportunity to put one’s work in front of an audience. The film that will be shown next month in Portland though, isn’t the film I…
New This Year At The Conference
by Ruth Witteried With no new FiLMLaB updates to report I’m going to take this opportunity to write about what’s new at the upcoming Willamette Writers Conference, August 1-4 at the Airport Sheraton Hotel. First off, notice I refer to four days of conference, not the traditional three. That is because things are happening on…
IT’S L.A. ALL OVER AGAIN – NOT!
by Randall Jahnson I felt like I was back in L.A. It was a hot Friday afternoon and here I was stuck on a freeway, inching along at 15 miles per with every other moron who was Living the Dream. The sun blazed down on my aging SUV with its inefficient air conditioner blasting away. …