Theme: Should I know what my script is about before I start writing it? — Emerging: How to Eventually Make it in Film & TV

It might sound wild, but sometimes our best and most meaningful work happens completely subconsciously. How many times have we sat down to write something profound and deeply thematically powerful, only to be crushed by the weight of what we're trying to do? So this week, we're (as Tray would say) "deeping it", to dig down into the overarching themes of our scripts, the intention behind them, and how much planning actually goes into their inclusion.

We talk about Sinners, about Star Wars and about the great Michael Arndt, discussing how we came to write about everything from loneliness, to difficult parental relationships, to our cultural identities and only realised the subtext of what we'd written long after typing 'Fade Out'. After all, writing can be the best (and cheapest) therapy around!

And if you're interested in the Michael Arndt lecture on endings, it's currently on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHfsEJ5JJo

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