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We're
happy to announce that award-winning writer, journalist, and filmmaker
Bryan Young is now teaching this always popular course!
Not only is a treatment a vital selling tool for screenwriters, the
process of writing a treatment can help screenwriters lay a solid
foundation for their screenplay that can save valuable time in the
writing process. This is your chance to map out your plot and develop
your characters before you’ve backed yourself into a corner with ninety
pages of blood, sweat, and tears behind you.
Let Script University show you, step-by-step, how to create an
electrifying treatment! We’ve made the anxiety-producing process of
treatment writing simple with our ground-breaking approach to the form.
By the end of this workshop, you will have a strong treatment and a
solid log line for your screenplay that has been vetted by an industry
professional.
"This course has
helped me tremendously. I was clueless as to how to write a treatment;
what to include and what a treatment language was like. The course
taught me all that I needed to know; in just three weeks!" -Former
Student
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- What
a treatment is and what it isn’t
- When
to use a treatment
- The
differences between a treatment, synopsis, coverage, beat sheet
and outline
- The
proper format for a treatment
- How
to choose what scenes go in your treatment
- What
to do with your treatment
- Where
to look for story ideas
- and
much
more!
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Course Starts Thursday!
January 28 -
February 18
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Instructor: Bryan Young
Bryan Young is an
award-winning writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He's worked on
numerous documentaries, including one the New York Times called
"filmmaking gold." He co-wrote the political
documentary Killer
at Large about America's obesity epidemic and works
daily doing documentary work for government clients. He writes
frequently for /Film, StarWars.Com, Syfy, and others.
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There are few
feelings more exciting than sitting in the back of a dark theatre
watching live actors perform your words, while an audience laughs and
cries or even shifts uncomfortably in their seats — and eventually
bursts into applause. It’s like watching a chemical reaction that
produces an incredible energy, an energy unique to the live stage. An
energy that all begins with the playwright.
Whether you’ve never written anything before, you’re experienced
in another kind of writing, or you’re a playwright looking to sharpen
your skills, “Introduction to Playwriting” offers clear, step-by-step
guidance in the basics: character, conflict and structure, setting,
dialogue and formatting. But that’s not all. Need to make that good
script great? We’ll study more than a dozen elements you can use in the
rewriting process to move your script up a level and then discuss what
to do next in the development and submission process. And since many of
the principles of playwriting apply to all forms of dramatic writing,
taking “Introduction to Playwriting” is a great idea for screenwriters
too. Not only will you come back to your screenwriting with fresh
insight, but you might find that you like writing plays too.
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- The
different types of stages and how to account for them in your
writing
- Three
models for creating compelling characters
- About
four different play structures & which to use for your play
- A
guideline of events that occur in a play’s beginning, middle, and
ending
- The
three “levels” of dialogue and how to use it to improve your story
- How
to format a play correctly
- What
to do next after you’ve finished writing a play
- and
much
more!
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Course Starts Thursday!
January 28 -
February 25
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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. Six of his screenplays have been optioned
including Crossroaders to
Haft Entertainment (Emma,
Dead Poets Society). 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. Under his guidance his students have written and produced
films that have appeared in major film festivals, have semifinal
placings at Nicholl Fellowship, and have won awards and screened at
film festivals around the country.
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