HOW TO WRITE A SCRIPT – Screenwriting Course for Beginners, led by a Scott Free, Paramount Pictures and Universal script consultant
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HOW TO WRITE A SCRIPT: Screenwriting for Beginners: our screenwriting course for beginners has been designed for creative individuals who possess great ideas for films or TV shows, but don’t know where to begin. It delivers a huge amount of information, condensed into one intense day, to participants new to screenwriting, new to writing, or both.
Focusing on both the writing process, and the industry writers find work in, the course aims to heavily de-mystify the process by which people become professional screenwriters, and help new writers navigate the sometimes precarious early years of the screenwriter.
Participants are guaranteed to leave with: an improved ability to identify a good concept or idea; a thorough understanding of what producers are looking for; an appreciation of the importance of genre; knowledge of the fees paid to screenwriters and typical industry screenwriting contracts; as well as a host of other information relating to the world of a screenwriter.
In addition, the course also delivers detailed information on the key production companies, distributers, sales agents and funding bodies operating in the UK marketplace, for whom screenwriters are vital.
Reasons to book with Industrial Scripts:
- This is Industrial Scripts’ first screenwriting training course – our other 2 training courses (“Effective Script Reading” & “Making the Low-Budget Feature”) have been huge successes.
- Course booking includes indefinite, ongoing email/telephone support from the course tutor: if you need advice after the course is complete our door is very much open.
- Our detailed course handouts accelerate your progress by highlighting different types of company and agent, cutting out the vast amount of man-hours required to source this information personally.
- Finally – the industry pays little attention to degrees in screenwriting. You can easily spend 2 or 3 years of your life and thousands of pounds on something that will ultimately not mean anything to anyone. It is far smarter to attend short courses, absorb lots of screenwriting theory, read tons of scripts, and WRITE very very hard.
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COURSE OUTLINE
10am – 1pm
- Introduction: the unique challenges of Screenwriting
- A guide to screenplay format and its importance
- The stages of screenwriting: idea, logline, treatment, screenplay, working draft-to-draft
- Ideas: how to generate them and the importance of having many projects on-the-go
- Ideas: skills and tactics to avoid channeling energies into the wrong projects (a very common mistake)
- Which genres are the easiest to break into as a new writer?
- Approaches to structure
- Knowing screenwriting theory, but not being wedded to it
***1 hour break for lunch at 1pm***
1pm – 7pm
- Dialogue: how to develop a phonetic ear for speech
- Creating characters who “leap off the page”
- Show don’t tell: writing cinematically
- Detailed overview of the industry: the life, pay and world of the screenwriter
- From draft-to-draft: examining a typical screenwriting deal
- Marketing yourself as a screenwriter in the digital age
- Industry etiquette – how to make yourself popular, and unpopular, as a writer
- Contacts sheet analysis
- Recommended reading list
- Q & A
- Informal networking drinks with the course tutor
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COURSE DETAILS
Our screenwriting course is held in Industrial Scripts’ offices on Regent Street in central London, moments from Oxford Circus tube.
The course fee is £156.99, which includes 50 pages of course notes (incl. sample industry script reports), an up-to-date contacts overview of the UK film & TV industries (incl. financiers, funding bodies, production companies, sales agents and distributers), a detailed recommended reading list, and refreshments.
Places are strictly limited and participants are advised to book early to avoid disappointment. Networking is firmly encouraged so please bring business cards. Lunch and networking drinks are not included.
To secure your place on any of our courses simply visit our website and book using your debit/credit card via the secure PayPal link, or alternatively if you’d like to pay by BACS online bank transfer please email info@industrialscripts.co.uk and we will send you the necessary details.
Questions? Call our office on 0207 1838907.
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