Tuesdays, May 14th - June 11th | The gatekeepers of the film and television industries make up their minds about a script in its very first pages. Those pages must not only charm and surprise, they must convince the reader that they are the foundation for a deeply imagined world and the compelling characters within it.
Whether you’re new to screenwriting, have a script under way or are revising, this course will help you achieve a great screenplay’s key objectives in an open and supportive workshop atmosphere. Through weekly writing exercises, table reads and script analysis you’ll learn how to introduce compelling characters, set a distinct tone, establish the rules of your fictional world, and hook your audience. We’ll dissect and discuss the scripts for American Fiction and the pilot script for Beef, along with interviews with screenwriters and excerpts from The TV Writer’s Workbook and The Screenwriter’s Bible. Students will complete the course with the opening pages of a screenplay, a one-line summary, and a toolbox of exercises, materials and resources to help them complete a unique script.