Screenwriting Courses
Character and Dialogue
An opportunity to join us on a one day workshop specifically aimed at helping screenwriters create believable characters in their screenplays. Ever wondered how to bring a true voice to your characters? Learn new skills and techniques that will help you to develop your writing skills and create a greater depth to your screenplay.
This is an intermediate course so students will be expected to turn up with a short screenplay already in development.
Long Course
City Eye's one day screenwriting workshop has been expanded into a more comprehensive writing course for those wishing to develop their screenwriting skills. Suitable for learners new to the subject as well as those who have already completed City Eye's one day screenwriting seminar.
In this course we explore the tools available to the screenwriter: genre, story, plot, form, style, and theme. And we look at the space a writer has to make the screenplay unique. The course is about how film works and provides a new perspective for film enthusiasts and an essential guide for screenwriters, aspiring or practicing. It will also be useful for anyone who likes to write fiction.
The course includes:
- Introduction - premise workshop
- Developing Ideas
- Stories, plots and narrative
- Outlines Workshop
- Tragedy, Comedy and Drama - Theme and Tone
- Genre - story shape
- Character - Plots and Active Questions
- Treatments and Outlines
- Research and setting
- The Short Screenplay - what are you really saying?
- Dialogue - uses and functions
- The Re-write
- Draft Screenplay Workshop
- Future plans and possibilities
During the course students will be encouraged to:
- Generate ideas
- Write a premise
- Workshop ideas (peer and tutor feedback)
- Explore character through group exercise
- Rewrite the premise - expand and consider theme and tone
- Write a first draft in their own time alongside ongoing individual sessions
- Learn how to give and receive feedback
- End with a first draft script to revise in their own time
