This series of four workshops will introduce participants to the unique nature of telling stories for the screen. The workshops will look at the various stage of screenwriting as well as introduce participants to the skills need to craft a story for the screen.

Each of the four workshops is organized around instruction, examples from existing films and hands-on exercises.

Participants will be encouraged to develop an original concept for a feature film and take that concept to the outline stage.

Recommended Reading: Making a Good Script Great by Linda Seeger.

Workshop One:

Instruction: Storytelling, Genre and the Three-Act structure. Screenplay fundamentals: concept, character, conflict, plot and theme. The developmental stages of a screenplay from concept to production draft.

Workshop Two:

Instruction: A continuations of elements from Workshop One with a particular emphasis on character, conflict (the problem) and story development.  Conflict and character grow out of each other but it is an ‘inciting incident’ that sets the story, or character’s journey, in motion.

Workshop Three:

Instruction: Secondary Characters and Subplots.

Workshop Four:

Instruction: Theme and World of the Story.