2011
By Pam On January 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Multimedia, Transmedia / New Media / Augmented Reality, TV
2011 Studio A: Studio A is a TV Show for RMITV, airing live on Channel 31. A weekly one-hour studio based variety show, featuring performances, interviews, celebrity guests and comedy. For this years first season of Studio A, I was the Graphics Operator. My responsibilities included creating and sourcing relevant graphics/photos in limited time-frames, [...]
Review: How to Train your Dragon Release: 25 March 2010 Duration: 98 minutes Rating: PG (for sequences of intense action and some scary images, and brief mild language) Directors: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders Writers: Cressida Cowell (novel), William Davies (screenplay), Dean DeBlois (screenplay), Chris Sanders (screenplay) Stars: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler and Christopher Mintz-Plasse [...]
The Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Awards began in 1967. The awards are celebrated by the AWG as story is a a vital part of all great film, television, radio, interactive media and theatre. These awards are the only industry writing awards judged completely by writers alone. Last Friday the 23rd of September marked the 44th [...]
Film Structure – Away from her Cover of Away from Her Films title: Away from her Writer(s): Sarah Polly, Alice Munro (short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”) Genre: drama, romance Time and setting: current, Canada Protagonist: Grant Anderson Antagonist: Fiona Anderson Other main characters: Aubrey, Madeline, Marian, nurse Kristy, other patients Initiating event: [...]
’1984′ By George Orwell: Symbolism George Orwell penned the novel ‘1984’, in 1948, as a warning on the possible outcome of the world, in the future. He created both the fictional dictator Big Brother and the segmented world. The protagonist is Winston Smith, an unlikely hero in this corrupt world. Winston values old items, such [...]
Script Comparison: American Beauty
By Pam On July 28, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Character, Film, Screenwriting, Structure Breakdown, Writing
American Beauty– Script comparison Screenplays are often referred to as the blue prints of a film; they undergo several developmental stages before hand over to directors, art departments and actors. These development stages can be anything from a single line of dialogue to a full restructuring of a script. The script development of Allan Ball’s [...]
Veronica Mars: Air date: 22 September 2004 (Season 1, Episode 1) Show’s premise Who hasn’t gone through high school without a few problems? Veronica Mars’s problem’s outrank your fashion blunders and fumbles in front of crushes. The worst thing that could happen to you is becoming a social outcast, right? Wrong. Try that and: your [...]
VAMPIRES, a celluloid reflection By Pamela Alison Meagher (10/11/2009) At 24 frames an hour ‘The Seventh Art’ brings one of the legendary creatures-of-the-night to life. Vampires were first seen on the big screen in The Vampire made in 1913. Robert G. Vignola co-wrote and directed it. Another key vampire film is Nosferatu made in 1979. [...]
St Kilda Film Festival Screening St Kilda Film Festival celebrates the spectacular triumphs of our local film industry with a cavalcade of pictures everyone must see. The festival is in it’s 28th year! This year’s festival will feature Australia’s Top 100 Shorts, exhibiting short films by some of the nation’s most promising directors. Screening of [...]
This weekend I set about doing some abstract-y art work in Photoshop. Have a look and let me know what you think!
WTF, Tim Ferguson?
By Pam On April 19, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Screenwriting, Transmedia / New Media / Augmented Reality, TV
Who Are The Mebmistresses? Published on: November 27, 2010 Written by Tim Ferguson Everyone wants to know: Who are the stylish ladies at the Communications Station of “With Tim Ferguson”? Pamela Meagher and Bethany Edwards are the minds behind the websites, blogs and tweets of the show. Live Tweeting from the set of a Live show [...]
What is social networking? History of social networking? Facts about social networking? Privacy and social networking? Future of social networking?
Last week I started work on the live TV show Studio A as a Graphics Operator. The show is a live variety comedy show. It includes exclusive interviews, celebrity guests, live sketches, stand-up acts, live music and much more. The show is in it’s fifth season! Studio A is an award winning program taking [...]
Character Study – Hamlet: Laertes Polonius’s second child is the hasty, popular, and loyal young man Laertes. He serves to contrast Hamlet’s character through interactions with Ophelia and dealing with loss and revenge. Laertes takes leave early in the play, giving respected advice to his sister and receiving blessings from his father, who promptly sends [...]
Highest-grossing Aussie films at the international box office The top ten highest-grossing local films at the international box office are: Happy Feet (2006) – $US384.3 million Crocodile Dundee (1986) – $US328.2 million Babe (1995) – $US254.1 million Crocodile Dundee II (1988) – $US239.6 million Australia (2008) – $US211.3 million Knowing (2009) – $US183.6 million Moulin Rouge! (2001) – [...]
Women Screenwriters International Women’s Day is today! To commemorate I have compiled a list of some women I find interesting. Of course, they are screenwriters! “Since the 1st Academy Awards in 1929 nearly 250 Oscars have been given to screenwriters. Of those awards approx. 9% have been for films written or co-written by women.” Women Screenwriters [...]
Review: When in Rome Release: 22 April 2010 Duration: 91 minutes Rating: PG (for some suggestive content) Director: Mark Steven Johnson Writers: David Diamond, David Weissman Stars: Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel and Anjelica Huston http://video.movies.go.com/wheninrome/ All the single ladies – put your hands up, because you’re the target audience of When in Rome. Hollywood execs [...]
Behance portfolio
By Pam On February 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Multimedia, Transmedia / New Media / Augmented Reality
I have created a portfolio on the Behance website. Check it out! Feel free to leave comments below.
Structure Breakdown:Bridget Jones’s Diary (film)
By Pam On February 14, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Book/novel, Film, Screenwriting, Structure Breakdown, Writing
Cover via Amazon MOVIE summary: Bridget Jones’s Diary Screenplay by Andrew Davies Book title: Bridget Jones’s Diary Writer(s): Screenplay by Andrew Davies, novel Helen Fielding Genre: drama, romance Time and setting: current, London Protagonist: Bridget Jones Antagonist: Mark Darcy, Daniel Cleaver Other main characters: Mum, Dad, Geoffrey, Una, Mr Fitzherbert, Mrs. Darcy, Pepetua, Jude, Shazza, [...]
Cover of Bridget Jones’s Diary BOOK summary: Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding Book title: Bridget Jones’s Diary Writer(s): Helen Fielding Genre: drama, romance Time and setting: current, London Protagonist: Bridget Jones Antagonist: Mark Darcy, Daniel Cleaver Other main characters: Mum, Dad, Geoffrey, Una, Mrs. Darcy, Perpetua, Jude, Shazza, Jude, Tom, Magda, Jeremy, Julio Back [...]
Trans-m-huh?
By Pam On January 30, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Multimedia, Screenwriting, Transmedia / New Media / Augmented Reality, Writing
What is Transmedia? Check out “Danica’s Vlog” on transmedia! So, what about an example…. Sure! Superman? The Simpsons? The Matrix? All! “Two platforms and dialogue with the audience” -Jeff Gomez So.. More detail please? Here is Henry Jenkins is the director, Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. Will transmedia storytelling enrich popular culture or make [...]
Review: Second-Hand Wedding Release: July 29 2010 Duration: 98 minutes Rating:PG (Mild themes and infrequent coarse language) Director: Paul Murphy Writers: Linda Niccol (screenplay), Nick Ward (idea and original script) Stars: Vivien Bell, Jimmy Best and Nick Blake We all know them; the thrift store shopper, the garage sale lurker and the eBay bidders. For [...]
Character Study – Hamlet: Ophelia
By Pam On January 20, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Book/novel, Character, Film, Screenwriting, Structure Breakdown, Writing
Character Study – Hamlet: Ophelia Of all the characters in Hamlet, Ophelia goes through the paramount of transformations. She is the fair, beautiful, and innocent daughter of Polonius and sister of Laertes. She is in a relationship with Hamlet. However, after warnings from her father and brother she contradicts her own feelings and faithfully halts [...]
Impact of mobile phones on the English language Date written: 28/04/08 The text based elements of mobile phones have had a profound impact on the English language. The textual mobile communications protocol is called Short Message System (SMS). The act of SMSing is referred to as texting. Texting has developed an evolved version of the [...]
Review: True Blood S1 By Pamela Meagher Grey’s Anatomy has nothing on this ‘dark and twisty’ vampire series. Young, telepathic Sookie’s McDreamy is a vamp who’s been alive since the Civil war. Image by r9M via Flickr Alan Ball’s True Blood is the world of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin). She is a small-town, Louisiana barmaid. [...]
Structure Breakdown: Juno
By Pam On January 11, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Character, Film, Screenwriting, Structure Breakdown, Writing
Structure Breakdown: Juno Films title: Juno Writer(s): Diablo Cody Genre: Dramatic comedy Time and setting: contemporary, America Protagonist: Juno MacGuff Antagonist: Vanessa, Mark, Bleeker Other main characters: Mac (father), Bren (step-mom), Leah, store clerk, Su-Chin, Gerta Rauss Initiating event: Pregnancy Protagonist’s Goal: give baby to a good home Back Story: Juno: It started with a [...]
Wordle – Love the concept of this site. Wordle is “a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.” Used it to create an image from the first blog post. You too can make a Wordle! Just go here: http://www.wordle.net/create
Hello All! I’m from Melbourne, Australia. At 18 months old I attempted a solo mission to boot up the family’s Apple computer, since then I have not stopped messing around with computers. In my computing degree I was a fish-out-of-water, my calling was a more creative field. So, I packed up my laptop and headed [...]
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