Screenwriting Essentials
Learn the essential screenwriting basics and turn your story concept into a screenplay. Gain insights on worldbuilding, characterizations, and genre. Get tips on receiving quality feedback, marketing your script, and familiarizing yourself with film and screenwriting terms. This course is designed for novice screenwriters, but all writers are welcome. Start your journey and become a passionate and committed screenwriter. Perfect for beginning creative fiction writers, aspiring screenwriters, directors, actors, and cinephiles.
What you’ll learn
- How to take a story concept and turn it into a screenplay using essential screenwriting basics.
- Learn the key points of worldbuilding, characterizations and genre.
- How to receive quality feedback to fuel your rewrite.
- Tips on how to market your finished script.
- Gain familiarity with common terms in film and screenwriting.
Screenwriting Essentials was created with you in mind. It is specifically designed for novice screenwriters who are starting the writer’s journey. However, all writers are welcome.
In the video tutorials that follow I will refer again and again to only one film, Monster’s Inc. PLEASE take time to watch this film in its entirety so you get the most out of the lessons. You’ll be glad you did.
My COURSE GOALS for YOU
How to write a screenplay for a movie.
Learn the basic steps of modern screenwriting.
Develop habits to motivate yourself to finish.
Familiarize yourself with essential terminology
How to ask for feedback that will fuel your rewrite.
Marketing tips for your completed script.
This is where YOU enter the scene! Every writer you admire started where you are now – knowing very little about how a story works but excited by an idea that demands to be written.
The world needs more screenwriters, not fewer. We need screenwriters who are still passionate and filled with commitment to their work and to their story.
I understand that new writers need advice on how to begin the process of writing for the screen. And sometimes it can be confusing…. So, I’m delighted that you’re starting your journey here!
Who this course is for:
- Beginning creative fiction writers.
- Anyone interested in writing screenplays, novels or plays.
- Beginning directors, screenwriters and actors
- Cinephiles or people who love movies who want to understand how they work.
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