8-Week: Screenwriting workshop

Every film starts with a screenplay. Master the methods to crafting engaging, entertaining, and memorable scriptsIn this 8-weeek workshop you will learn about the craft of dramatic writing, how to write for the screen, and how to market your work.Whether you seek to write shorts or features, Hollywood glamor or indie grit, we’ll show you how to write screenplays that light up the screen.

What you will learn:

• Turn your idea into a Screenplay
• Create a Pitch That Sells Your Idea
• Develop Compelling Characters
• Structure Your Screenplay
• Learn Techniques That Make Scenes Leap Off The Page
• Polish Your Screenplay
• Discover Resources To Help Get Your Screenplay Noticed

Course Outline:

Class 1

• Story telling foundations
• The functions of a screenplay
• Film writing vs Tv writing
• Cinematic storytelling principles
• Conflict. Theme. Genre. Tone
• Plotting tools
• Story Line. Synopsis.Tag Line and Log lines.
• Outlines

Class 2

• Screenplay structure: Types and fundamentals.
• Linear and non linear structures
• 3 Acts structure: Inciting incident. Plot Points. Midpoint.Climax
• The Story circle
• Subplots functions
• The First treatment

Class 3

• Scene I
• Scene fundamentals: What is an scene?. Scene Goals.
• Scene structure: Beginnings and endings. The turning point
• Writing with Beats
• The previous circurmstances
• Script formal tools

Class 4

• Scene II
• Writing techniques: Set up and pay off. Repetition.Mc guffin
• Enter late, get out earlier technique
• Subtext techniques
• The sequence of montage.
• Visual transitions

Class 5

• Characters
• The character core: Goal, Motivation.Need. The spine
• The protagonist. • The antagonist.• Other characters.
• The secondary characters design
• Back story.
• The Character `profile

Class 6

• Dialogue I
• Dialogue fundamentals: Goals and functions
• Dialogue format
• Dialogue Techniques: Set up and pay off, trigger,repetition,
• unexpected response, the delay response.The suspense sentence

Class 7

• Dialogue II
• Subtext techniques for dialogues
• Tone and rhythm in Dialogues.• The Pause.
• The voice over
• The golden rule for Film and tv dialogue

Class 8

• Pitching
• Pitching techniques. How to seel your script in film industry.
• The elevator pitch
• Essential revision skills.
• Marketing tools
• Script consultancy for your Movie/tv project

Course details:

September -October 30th, 2022

Mondays, 18pm to 20pm.US Eastern time

15pm to 17pm. US Pacific time

8sessions of 2 hours each.

Total: 16hours.

The workshop will be held live in a virtual classroom in Zoom

Class recordings will be available for registered participants

Meeting details are provided once the booking is completed.

Instructor:

Ezequiel Rubin.He works as Story consultant/Screenwriting Teacher. He has collaborated for several projects from Spain, Argentina Italy and Canada, working for companies such as Tve, Factotum, Rai Cinema, Tv3, Met Films, Vrual Virtue and MediaPro.

Founder of Cinelab, film school based in Barcelona, provides Screenwriting, Filmmaking courses and coaching for Writers, Actors and Directors.He is actually working as Script consultant/Script doctor for several projects from USA and Europe.

CVScript ConsultantBlackbird-Tv Series//Last Little bit productions. (Australia)Unoccupy-Tv series//Virual Virtue (USA)Remember I love you-Feature Film//The Mastermind(USA)Impunity-Documentary//The Big Story-Mediapro. (Spain)Frecuencia Oculta-Feature Film//Adcis Films. (Colombia)Quien eres-Feature film//Cuarenta Films.(Spain)

Contact us:

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: https://van344.wixsite.com/cinelab

FB: https://www.facebook.com/Cinelabfilm

IG: https://www.instagram.com/cinelab_filmschool/

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