Scriptwriting course

 
SCRIPTWRITING COURSE FOR STAGE AND SCREEN STARTING JAN 2024
 
With Sara Clifford and Lisa Fulthorpe
 
Do you have a story you’re burning to tell?
 
Would you love to write a script, and hear it read by professional actors?
 
This will be the fourth year of Scriptease (which started in 2021) - and once again we’re excited to be offering this highly successful, year-long scriptwriting program, facilitated by two professional writers and lecturers.  This course is suitable for both beginner and more established writers, and will enable you to explore and develop your skills as a writer for both the stage and the screen. You’ll develop your voice as a dramatic writer, identify the story you’re passionate about and discover the best way to tell it. 
 
How will I learn?
You’ll learn the craft of dramatic writing by doing it. Alongside your peers, you’ll do fun exercises in class (and some at home). You’ll analyse play scripts/screenplays and deconstruct films to find out how they work. As you develop your idea(s), each term you’ll have a tutorial with us and feedback on your script.
 
What will I learn?
With our guidance you’ll be able to shape your story into a dramatic form using the principles of storytelling: character, structure and genre.  We’ll also look at the current landscape in playwriting and the film/TV industry, so you can discover pathways into production.
 
What will I achieve?
Over several drafts, you’ll develop a polished short play or film script (up to 10 pages) or the first 10-14 pages of a full-length play, feature film or pilot TV show. At the end of the course your script will be read by professional actors in person, so you can hear your words come alive in front of your peers and a supportive critical audience. 
 
WHERE: On Zoom, with an end-of-year in person, rehearsed-reading with actors
 
WHEN:   Four Wednesdays per term (2 hours): 10 am-12.30 pm 
               One Saturday per term (4 hours): 10 – 2pm 
               Each term you will have a 1:1 tutorial plus a report on your script as it progresses.
 
Teaching sessions will be spaced two or three weeks apart each term, rather than weekly, to allow time to read and watch films, and to work on your script (for full dates see page 3). 
 
Term 1: Jan 10th to Mar 20th 2024 (writing for performance/theatre)
Term 2: May  8th to May July 17th 2024 (writing the screenplay)  
Term 3: Sept 4th to Nov 20th  2024 (developing and polishing your script – for stage or screen)
Readthrough with actors:  Saturday 9th December 2024

Bursary applicable

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