Scotch Literature Festival 2007 > Randal
Randal Flynn
Randal Flynn is a full-time writer who has sold feature screenplays to Hollywood, Australia and the U.K.
and once worked with Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) on Dr. Who.
He has written six non-fiction
books for children, published by Macmillan, and has taught an internationally acclaimed screenwriting course for
over ten years. Among other things, Randal has been editor of a British speculative fiction magazine, publisher
and chief editor of a film magazine, and has worked as a script editor for the NSW Film & Television Office.
He is currently at work on more scripts as well as two fictional books for children. His movie 34th Floor
(produced by the makers of The Fugitive, Seven and Outbreak) is due to be shot in the US this year.
The Truman Show
(Year 11)
Movies come from an original text - the screenplay - which the director and actors interpret.
Randal looks at how this first text becomes the movie that audiences eventually see. By analysing key scenes and structure, by looking at ancient - and still current! - storytelling devices such as conflict, suspense, reversals, timelocks, 3-act structure, thematic unity, and more, he helps the audience understand how a film story is told, how drama is created, and why telling and listening to stories is the art of being human.
Lantana
(Year 12)
Movies come from an original text - the screenplay - which the director and actors interpret.
Randal looks at how this first text becomes the movie that audiences eventually see. By analysing key scenes and structure, by looking at ancient - and still current! - storytelling devices such as conflict, suspense, reversals, timelocks, 3-act structure, thematic unity, and more, he helps the audience understand how a film story is told, how drama is created, and why telling and listening to stories is the art of being human.