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HAVE A FINISHED SCRIPT BEFORE SUMMER!
CLASSES WILL BE CONDUCTED OVER ZOOM FOR SIX SESSIONS OVER EIGHT WEEKS. They will last 3 hours, and will be hosted on Sundays from 9am PST/12pm ET. Class dates will run April 12, April 19, May 3, May 17, May 31.
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Taught by Alanna Bennett and Hope Rehak, this six-week seminar was created to follow The Spring School's six-week Screenwriting Workshop: Scene Study & Creating An Outline class. We found that students who have some pages or partial drafts of a film wanted additional structured time and lessons to complete their full, 90- to 110-page scripts.
You do not have to have taken the Scene Study & Creating An Outline course to take this class, but students are expected to have, at minimum, a complete outline for a full-length film when starting this class. This class is about finishing that script!
Our primary focus in this class will be on strategies for creating a writing practice, honing comedic "games" and snappy dialogue, and making sure students know the three act structure of a classic Hollywood film-- even if they choose to transgress it. We'll talk about genre and craft, and we will have a generative writing exercise each class, to help with getting those ideas out of your mind and onto the page. We will also be workshopping pages in most classes, as we did in the Scene Study workshop.
Writers will leave this seminar with a "vomit draft" of a full-length feature screenplay, as well as a community that can help them revise and take it to the next level even after the class technically wraps.
COURSE TAKEAWAYS:
- Cliches and conventions to know!
- What makes a compelling story, and what pays it off?
- How can we infuse humor into our work, and how do we make that humor fit the characters and story we are telling?
- How do we move filmmaking forward? How do we blast the form open to include the voices that have historically been shut out?
COURSE EXPECTATIONS:
Students are expected to write out of class, as well as read each other's work on their own time in anticipation of class workshops. However, this course will have built-in writing time in the form of exercises that are meant to generate ideas and pages. There will also be periodic WRITE-INS & OFFICE HOURS designed to offer space outside of class to bounce ideas around or body-double your writing.
COURSE SKELETON:
Week 1: Revising your outline - making sure it has what it needs to move forward
Week 2: Set-up and Act I
Week 3: Midpoint and Act II
Week 4: Climax and Act III
Week 5: Revision methods, practices, and what’s next
HAVE A FINISHED SCRIPT BEFORE SUMMER!
CLASSES WILL BE CONDUCTED OVER ZOOM FOR SIX SESSIONS OVER EIGHT WEEKS. They will last 3 hours, and will be hosted on Sundays from 9am PST/12pm ET. Class dates will run April 12, April 19, May 3, May 17, May 31.
—
Taught by Alanna Bennett and Hope Rehak, this six-week seminar was created to follow The Spring School's six-week Screenwriting Workshop: Scene Study & Creating An Outline class. We found that students who have some pages or partial drafts of a film wanted additional structured time and lessons to complete their full, 90- to 110-page scripts.
You do not have to have taken the Scene Study & Creating An Outline course to take this class, but students are expected to have, at minimum, a complete outline for a full-length film when starting this class. This class is about finishing that script!
Our primary focus in this class will be on strategies for creating a writing practice, honing comedic "games" and snappy dialogue, and making sure students know the three act structure of a classic Hollywood film-- even if they choose to transgress it. We'll talk about genre and craft, and we will have a generative writing exercise each class, to help with getting those ideas out of your mind and onto the page. We will also be workshopping pages in most classes, as we did in the Scene Study workshop.
Writers will leave this seminar with a "vomit draft" of a full-length feature screenplay, as well as a community that can help them revise and take it to the next level even after the class technically wraps.
COURSE TAKEAWAYS:
- Cliches and conventions to know!
- What makes a compelling story, and what pays it off?
- How can we infuse humor into our work, and how do we make that humor fit the characters and story we are telling?
- How do we move filmmaking forward? How do we blast the form open to include the voices that have historically been shut out?
COURSE EXPECTATIONS:
Students are expected to write out of class, as well as read each other's work on their own time in anticipation of class workshops. However, this course will have built-in writing time in the form of exercises that are meant to generate ideas and pages. There will also be periodic WRITE-INS & OFFICE HOURS designed to offer space outside of class to bounce ideas around or body-double your writing.
COURSE SKELETON:
Week 1: Revising your outline - making sure it has what it needs to move forward
Week 2: Set-up and Act I
Week 3: Midpoint and Act II
Week 4: Climax and Act III
Week 5: Revision methods, practices, and what’s next