Since I last wrote, we underwent the National Film Challenge for 2011. I promised that this time the writing process would be orderly and productive. And it was! But then the shooting process happened. And it was less orderly and productive. As a result, I can't post a properly finished product as such a thing does not exist, but I can post the script.
Chain Reactions: A Short Screenplay for the 2011 NFC
Genre: Film de Femme
Character: Casey Scott, Bicyclist
Prop: Light Bulb
Line of Dialogue: "It's probably poisonous."
Showing posts with label Boston Theatre Marathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston Theatre Marathon. Show all posts
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Two Short Plays: My Boston Theatre Marathon entries
My playwriting discussion group has a guy who hates the 10 minute play. Actually, to be fair, he hates that the predominance of the 10 minute play tempts playwrights to try and cram 15-20 minutes worth of story into 10 minutes for the sake of getting them entered into contests.
I'm someone who loves the form of the 10 minute play. I tend to write towards constructing moments rather than resolving plots or exploring all aspects of an idea, and 10 minutes seems to be a good length in which to build the machinery that will unveil the perfect moment. That's not to say that I don't write longer pieces (I'll get to those eventually on this blog), but the short play has been in many ways some of the most rewarding things I've written.
I'm someone who loves the form of the 10 minute play. I tend to write towards constructing moments rather than resolving plots or exploring all aspects of an idea, and 10 minutes seems to be a good length in which to build the machinery that will unveil the perfect moment. That's not to say that I don't write longer pieces (I'll get to those eventually on this blog), but the short play has been in many ways some of the most rewarding things I've written.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
What this blog will be
So, I suppose that the thing to do is to introduce myself and what this blog will be about.
My name is Greg Lam, and I write a lot. Mostly I write plays and screenplays, though I also have written prose stories and a sci-fi novel that needs a major round of editing. I'm fairly confident that I'm pretty good at writing. I've gotten plays into the Boston Theatre Marathon five times, and those have resulted in a couple of publications. I wrote a screenplay for the National Film Challenge that was one of the finalists for 2010.
My name is Greg Lam, and I write a lot. Mostly I write plays and screenplays, though I also have written prose stories and a sci-fi novel that needs a major round of editing. I'm fairly confident that I'm pretty good at writing. I've gotten plays into the Boston Theatre Marathon five times, and those have resulted in a couple of publications. I wrote a screenplay for the National Film Challenge that was one of the finalists for 2010.
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