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Unleash your storytelling skills and bring your ideas to life with online screenwriting classes. Learn the art of crafting compelling scripts and gain the knowledge and creativity to make your mark in the entertainment industry.
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Screenwriting Alchemy
4 Week workshop for Screenwriters, TV writers, & Web series creators First, middle, or final drafts. Learn how to turn any pages - into great ones. Cliche transforms into familiar but different, expository morphs into extraordinary, confusing into profound, and average into extraordinary. Discover how to shape-shift for the creation of a magnificent screenplay. In this workshop, we focus on you. Your mind, Your story,...
TV & Screenwriting Alchemy
Master the craft without losing the art. Learn how to turn any pages into a great script. In this workshop, we focus on you: your mind, your story, and your goals. Through this approach, we aim to turn the average into the extraordinary. By focusing on the way you approach the page, you will build a set of tools that can be applied to every script you ever write. Every week you will discover and practice new tools for building story...
Screenplay 1: Writing for the Screen
The virtual screenwriting course will be taught by award-winning filmmaker Pedro Resto. The focus of the course is to help students develop an original idea into a screenplay draft. By using accelerated screenwriting techniques, students will learn the fundamentals of writing for film. Upon completion of the course, students will have a short screenplay written to add to their portfolio. The course will cover the following: Introduction...
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Ten Weeks to Your Feature Film
The world of the feature film is booming and you are gushing with ideas. This workshop will give you the tools to get the ideas out of your head and into a completed screenplay by introducing you to the methods that professional screenwriters use to write under deadlines. If you have been sitting on an idea for a feature film, this is your chance to complete a draft of your screenplay in just ten weeks, with expert feedback at every step. Whether...
All levels
16 and older
Screenwriting Relationship Structure
Are you feeling lost with screenplay structure but don't like the paint by number algorithms handed to the masses by the screenwriting books?Would you like to discover ways of approaching structure that allow your character and story to be as unique as you are while still meeting the requirements of the industry?Would you like to feel structure as an extension of yourself and your voice rather than an external attachment?Would you prefer...
Introduction to Screenwriting
Unlock your creativity and learn the essentials of screenwriting for television and movies. Discover the art of plotting stories, developing compelling characters, and executing your work in the proper screenwriting format. Get insider tips on selling your script and building a successful career in screenwriting.
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Crafting the Scene
Too many writers think that a scene is just two people talking or arguing. Or they use the scene as an opportunity to advance the plot, reveal character, or simply make an impact through set-pieces. While there’s some validity to that, most amateur scenes tend to fall flat and disengage the reader, who ultimately tosses the script in the recycling bin. Writing great scenes requires talent, skill, know-how and practice. While the first two can’t...
All levels
16 and older
Beginning Feature Film Writing: Outline and Act One
When you plan a long-distance trip to a place you’ve never been before, do you just hop in the car and start driving and hope for the best? Writing a screenplay is also a long trip into unknown territory. There are hundreds of complex decisions to be made during the trip. That’s why making a few basic decisions before you start can both reduce stress and make sure you’re heading in the right direction. Whether you are a writer looking to understand...
Beginner
16 and older
Writing Dialogue for Emotional Impact
There are three kinds of feelings when reading a script – yes, no, and WOW! Your job as a screenwriter is to create that WOW! feeling on as many pages as possible. When you write dialogue that is authentic, sparkling, and well-crafted you individualize characters and entertain the reader. This is an ultimate challenge for most screenwriters, who otherwise may have solid script elements, and yet are bound to fail because of flawed dialogue. How-to...
All levels
16 and older
Story Development and Outlining
The most intelligent and intriguing premise in the world is only that—just a premise—until it’s been given a shape that draws an audience in and keeps its attention and investment. Until it’s given a protagonist through which the audience understands the premise in concrete terms, and feels the clearly-defined stakes, someone with whom they can identify and for whom they can cheer. In other words, until the premise has become a story. This...
All levels
16 and older
How To Develop Backstories For Your Characters
The creation of characters begin with well thought out psychological back stories. Developing backstories for characters involve many decisions on the part of the writer. Whether your protagonist has a personality disorder, mental illness, or just a loveable quirk can make all the difference in selling your script. Character flaws are what make your characters believable and relatable. All psychological flaws can be traced back to childhood and environmental...
All levels
16 and older
The Fundamentals of Screenwriting: Solid Foundation
Have an amazing idea for a movie, but don’t know how to begin writing it? Get your screenplay on the track to success with the Fundamentals of Screenwriting online course. This four-week class is the perfect introduction to the fantastic world of writing a script, from the fundamentals of the story down to the revision process. In this course, you will gain the tools to structure your scenes, your acts, and your plots. At each step, you will receive...
All levels
16 and older
Pixar's Emotional Core: Character Development Intensive
Every great film causes the viewer to want go on an emotional journey with your characters. Pixar's amazing track record has shown that they have been consistently successful in tapping into the essential qualities that can make audiences care about their characters and stories. UCLA screenwriting instructor and author Karl Iglesias will take your writing to the next level, using an in-depth analysis of Pixar's master storytelling and character-building...
All levels
16 and older
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