12 Essentials To Being A Professional Screenwriter - Christian Elder

Want to see the video version of this podcast? https://youtu.be/n_ehpqVUrzA?si=8sdoIiCWuiUG3oeN Christian Elder is a screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. He has been a finalist for Tribeca All Access, a semi-finalist for the International Thomas Wolfe Playwriting Award, a quarterfinalist for the ScreenCraft Play contest and a quarterfinalist for the Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. His work written for the stage has been recently developed at the Billie Holiday Theatre through the Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop and Urban Stages, both in New York. He has written and directed two short films and is the creator and executive producer of the new crime fiction anthology podcast Hell, California. Elder's Hell, California, is a hardboiled crime fiction podcast anthology series (co-produced by Jeremy Foley). It takes place in a mysterious, mythical California border town called Hell. Each episode is an original standalone noir story, often about greed, lust and murder. In March 2020, Elder, Foley and a team of six writers formed an online TV writers’ room during the pandemic, resulting in this series. CONNECT WITH ‘HELL, CALIFORNIA - An Anthology Crime Show’ https://spoti.fi/3x8ZeFb https://podcasts.apple.com/us/....podcast/hell-califor https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UC-V6fNsTDD1-lGzD5 https://twitter.com/HellCalifornia https://www.instagram.com/hellcalifornia CONNECT WITH CHRISTIAN ELDER https://christianelder.org https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5468145 VIEWERS ALSO WATCHED Beginner's Guide To Being A Writer - https://youtu.be/T40VatyO6xk The Writer's Room Survival Guide - https://youtu.be/EumHXsDZBqo My Story Can Beat Up Your Story - https://youtu.be/4fwi63xAQvE How Writers Develop Characters With The Defining Moment - https://youtu.be/BDRQCxLBGx8 Story Development Workshop: Writing An Original Screenplay - https://youtu.be/_UyjnR-XBtU CONNECT WITH FILM COURAGE http://www.FilmCourage.com http://twitter.com/#!/FilmCourage https://www.facebook.com/filmcourage https://www.instagram.com/filmcourage http://filmcourage.tumblr.com http://pinterest.com/filmcourage SUBSCRIBE TO THE FILM COURAGE YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://bit.ly/18DPN37 SUPPORT FILM COURAGE BY BECOMING A MEMBER https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UCs8o1mdWAfefJkdBg SUPPORT FILM COURAGE BY BECOMING A PATRON https://www.patreon.com/filmcourage LISTEN TO THE FILM COURAGE PODCAST https://soundcloud.com/filmcourage-com (Affiliates) SAVE $15 ON YOUTUBE TV - LIMITED TIME OFFER https://tv.youtube.com/referral/r0847ysqgrrqgp ►WE USE THIS CAMERA (B&H) – https://buff.ly/3rWqrra ►WE USE THIS EDITING PROGRAM (ADOBE) – https://buff.ly/44FYkAk ►WE USE THIS SOUND RECORDER (AMAZON) – http://amzn.to/2tbFlM9 Stuff we use: LENS - Most people ask us what camera we use, no one ever asks about the lens which filmmakers always tell us is more important. This lens was a big investment for us and one we wish we could have made sooner. Started using this lens at the end of 2013 - http://amzn.to/2tbtmOq AUDIO Rode VideoMic Pro - The Rode mic helps us capture our backup audio. It also helps us sync up our audio in post https://amzn.to/425k5rG Audio Recorder - If we had to do it all over again, this is probably the first item we would have bought - https://amzn.to/3WEuz0k LIGHTS - Although we like to use as much natural light as we can, we often enhance the lighting with this small portable light. We have two of them and they have saved us a number of times - http://amzn.to/2u5UnHv *These are affiliate links, by using them you can help support this channel. Please subscribe to our Youtube channel. You can show additional support via our Youtube sponsor tab by going here: https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UCs8o1mdWAfefJkdBg or through Patreon here - http://www.patreon.com/filmcourage. Thank you for listening! We hope you've enjoyed this content.