- Duration: 2 days
Course details
This print-to-screen course gives the fundamentals of screenwriting to novelists, short story fiction writers, playwrights and others wishing to adapt their stories to the screen. We start with the building blocks of visual story telling, from creating loglines to shaping characters and giving the story dramatic form and structure.
We will also do some writing exercises to get participants to break away from novel-style in-the-character’s-head type writing, to writing scenes which the audience can see and hear.
Course Outline
Day 1
- Pitching the Story
- Loglines, Synopsis, Treatments to interest producers
- Dramatic 3-Act Structure
- Aristotle’s Unity of Action
- Beginning, Middle and End (Linear and Non Linear)
- Developing Characters: Social, Physiology, Psychology, Motivation, Character Flaws, Character Development Exercise
- Main Story Elements
- Inciting incident, foreshadowing and payoff, crisis, resolution, denouement
- Writing sluglines
- Locations and Props
- Difference between writing a theatre play, a tv script, a short film script, a feature film script
- Silent Scene Writing Exercise
Day 2
- Refining the Pitch
- Main Story Elements Part 2: Location and Prop Writing Exercise, Using Sound, Writing Visually
- Action Descriptions: Making us see the film, feel with the characters
- Dialogue Writing Exercise
- Screenwriting Format
- Collaborative Writing
Course Location
About Academy Of Literary Arts & Publishing Singapore
The Academy of Literary Arts and Publishing Singapore is the training arm of the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS). The academy conducts short courses, workshops and masterclasses in the fields of publishing, writing, reading and storytelling. The Academy's workshops meet the training needs of publishing professionals, media employees and media freelancers. See all Academy Of Literary Arts & Publishing Singapore courses- Essaycraft Course CentralSGD 31
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