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In the process of "finding the drama", the screenwriter's fears, prejudices and choices are continually being challenged and ‘shaped’ by the needs and actions of the CHARACTERS. The screenwriter's response to these "beings" either promotes or aborts the elemental, dialogical relationships that are the basis of drama and a MEDIUMISTIC engagement with STORY. To work as a medium, one must enter into a thoroughly interactive and shareable relationship with all the characters, including one's AUDIENCE, one's TRIBE, and the most problematic character of all, ONESELF. The mediumistic storyteller's fundamental insight is the realisation that DRAMATIC ACTION is neither mine nor theirs, but ours.
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Script Services - WHERE'S THE DRAMA? |
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Billy Marshall Stoneking and Christina Conrad have joined forces to provide a revolutionary and illuminating script consultancy service for Australian and overseas filmmakers. As experienced filmmakers with extensive production credits in both fictional and factional film and television projects, they are keenly aware of the creative and dramatic problems and opportunities confronting screenwriters, writer/directors and producers, struggling to find the characters and the actions by which a compelling and memorable story might be told. Their radical method, which employs the "grammar of drama" in the service of CHARACTER-BASED, MEDIUMISTIC storytelling, has contributed to the success of films like Chopper, Ali & the Ball, and the AFI award-winning ABC-TV drama series, Stringer. |
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