With details of upcoming courses in the latest Script University newsletters:
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To find the best ‘story’ within a ‘true story,’ we need
to start with a clear understanding of what makes for a viable
screenplay idea. There are MANY stories within every true story, and
the thrill and challenge of writing based on a true story is to select
the one that will make the most compelling screenplay.
In this workshop, you will learn how to USE ‘history’ to make ‘story.’
Audiences and industry professionals view the 'reality' behind the
story as an element of intrigue, or selling point, but the
screenwriter’s skills need to be up to snuff. In this workshop, you
will go through the step by step process of building your screenplay
from the foundation of a true story.
"One of the best courses I've taken. Paul is an extraordinary
mentor who will go the extra mile to help us, struggling writers. I
recommend this course." -Former Student
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- How to adapt a true
story into a hit screenplay step by step
- Why true story
adaptations make hot sellers
- The creative process of taking a true story to
the screen
- How to write loglines that will get executives
to read your script
- and much
more!
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Course Starts Thursday!
September 24 -
November 5, 2020
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Instructor: Paul Peditto
Paul Peditto is an award-winning screenwriter and
director. His low-budget film Jane Doe starring Calista Flockhart won
Best Feature at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival.
Over the past decade, Mr. Peditto has consulted with over 1,000 screenwriting
students around the world. He has appeared on National Public Radio and
WGN radio, and reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, L.A.
Times, and the New York Times. Peditto is an adjunct professor of
screenwriting at Columbia College.
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Whether you're completely new to writing screenplays or
you're an experienced screenwriter looking to add a new skill, Script
University has a course for you, all from the comfort of your home!
Click
here to view
the full course schedule >>
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Courses
Starting This Week:
Advanced Television Rewriting Workshop
Instructor:
William Rabkin
In this course, William Rabkin, an
established screenwriter, will look over your ENTIRE screenplay and
give you tips on how to polish it. This eight-week workshop is broken
up into four sessions; each will focus on individual elements of the
rewriting process.
Beginning
Feature Film Writing
Instructor:
Donald H Hewitt
Have an amazing idea for a movie, but
don’t know how to begin writing it? In this course, you will gain the
tools to structure your scenes, your acts, and your plots. This
four-week workshop is the perfect introduction to the fantastic world
of writing a script, from the fundamentals of the story down to the
revision process.
How To
Write Based On A True Story
Instructor:
Paul Peditto
To find the best ‘story’ within a ‘true story,’ we need to start with a
clear understanding of what makes for a viable screenplay idea. There
are MANY stories within every true story, and the thrill and challenge
of writing based on a true story is to select the one that will make
the most compelling screenplay. In this workshop, you will go through
the step by step process of building your screenplay from the
foundation of a true story.
Powerful
Endings to Hook Your Reader
Instructor:
Dave Trottier
Hook your readers with a powerful ending that will convert them into
fans of your screenplay. Write as you learn in this unique course that
provides instruction, tips, online discussion, and relevant homework
assignments, including an evaluation of pages from your ending.
Professional
Playwriting: Genre, Character, and Voice
Instructor:
Paul Peditto
You’ve written a play or two, maybe three, but you wish to level up
your game, expand your horizons and take playwriting to the next level.
This course will help you sharpen your playwriting tools, explore the
diversity of performance choices for the stage, and develop an
awareness of how you can best use theatre and playwriting to serve your
individual voice.
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Upcoming
Webinars:
Loglines: How to Sell Your Script in One Sentence
with Jon James
Miller
Thursday, October 15, 1:00 PM PDT
Loglines are more art than science. They
are a promise to the reader that a script is not only worth their time
but going to change their life. Because if successful, a logline will
stick in a reader’s mind and motivate them to read and become a
champion of our work. This webinar demystifies the process of creating
an exciting and utterly irresistible logline.
Ha! Aaah! The Painful Relationship Between Humor
and Horror
with David
Misch
Thursday, October 29, 1:00 PM PDT
From 1920’s “Haunted Spooks” to “Zombieland,” the genre of
horror-comedy has never really, you should excuse the expression, died.
Using video clips and examples ranging from Freud & Kant to Abbott
& Costello, David Misch explores how horror and humor share a
mordant view of our relationship to pain; an obsession with the human
body and its multifarious fluids; and a subtext of death and
transcendence underlying the eviscerated flesh and fart jokes.
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EXPERT INSTRUCTORS | CONVENIENT ACCESS
INVALUABLE FEEDBACK
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