This intensive workshop for writers of features and/or shorts is a professional approach to story and structure for narrative films with emotional impact. Students begin by creating a compelling premise with artistic and/or commercial promise.
Shorts writers develop the premise into an outline and the outline into a screenplay. They rewrite the screenplay until the film is ready to shoot, while acquiring or enhancing skills essential to writing in longer forms.
Feature writers develop the premise into a first-stage outline. If and when they are ready, they develop that into a second-stage outline from which a screenplay can be written. If time allows, they begin the first draft of the screenplay.
Required software: Final Draft.
Requisites
Take Film-500, Screenwritng: Writing Visually