Structure Breakdown: Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Play)
By Pam On April 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Book/novel, Screenwriting, Structure Breakdown, Writing
Structure Breakdown: Hamlet (Play)
Writer(s): William Shakespeare
Type: Stage play
Time and setting: 1564-1616
Protagonist: Hamlet
Antagonist: Claudius
Other main characters: Polonius, Horatio, Laertes, Voltemand, Cornelius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Osric, Marcellus, Bernardo, Francisco, Reynaldo, players, clowns, Fortinbras, Gertrude, Ophelia, ghost
Back story
Old king Hamlet dead ghost had appeared to the guards, tell [...]
Structure Breakdown: True Blood: Pilot episode script Genre
The genre of True Blood is supernatural drama. These shows also contain elements of crime and mystery, with touches of romance and comedy. Other related shows that fit this genre are Reaper, Buffy, Supernatural, Dead Like Me, Angel, and Moonlight. shows revolve around vampire and supernatural [...]
2011
By Pam On January 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Multimedia, Transmedia / New Media / Augmented Reality, TV
2011
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
’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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Behance portfolio
By Pam On February 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Multimedia, Transmedia / New Media / Augmented Reality
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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