LA Screenwriting Expo - Oct. 24-28 /07

Guys!!!... Here's Mike Jone's blog post reminder for next week's Creative Screenwriting Conference and Trade Show in LA, which I'm posting as a reminder too. Just promise me that if you're going to be anywhere near LA during the Celtx seminar dates, you HAVE to come and listen to Mike speak! 'He' describes himself as the comic relief,... 'we' describe him as very impressive comic relief!! So come along and prepare to be informed, AND entertained.... - S

Screenwriting Expo-6 is on again this October - 24th- 28th - with quite an array of guest speakers including William Goldman and Steve Zallian. And for comic relief, if nothing else, yours truly will also be in attendence delivering several presentations looking at :

New Approaches to Writing from Script to Screen Presented by Celtx
Integrating processes of writing and screenplay development with Celtx. For too long the writing of the screenplay has been divorced from the development of ideas into cinematic vision. Now in the digital age we are afforded enormous opportunities to embrace tools that allow for an holistic approach to developing a movie project from concept, character and script - through to pre-visualization, storyboarding and production. Celtx is just such a tool. Open source and free, Celtx brings together comprehensive screenwriting, character and plot development tools with storyboarding,break-down and production management systems. This presentation will demonstrate Celtx and explore the new approaches to building a screenplay made possible by its powerful feature set.

Sounds like fun hey? More than just showing the flexible and holistic approach of Celtx the presentations are really about re-thinking some of the long held paradigms of what we think screenwriting is and looking to a more inclusive an integrated methodolgy for the digital age; one that embraces all the myraid of posisbilities. You can read about the sessions here and if you are from the LA area (or are in town for the Expo) do come along and say hi.

Posted at 12:00AM Oct 15, 2007 by Mike Jones in general