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Learn the art of crafting compelling narratives and creating dynamic characters in online playwriting classes, where you can explore various techniques and gain insight into the world of theater from the comfort of your home.
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TV & Screenwriting Alchemy
Master the craft without losing the art. Learn how to turn any pages into a great script. In this workshop, we focus on you: your mind, your story, and your goals. Through this approach, we aim to turn the average into the extraordinary. By focusing on the way you approach the page, you will build a set of tools that can be applied to every script you ever write. Every week you will discover and practice new tools for building story...
TV: Character Driven Stories
You’ve got a story, outline or 1 pager for a TV Show or feature. You know your characters in and out, but now you have to write compelling, dramatic, hilarious, true scenes! In this one-day Online Bringing TV Characters To Life workshop “Transparent” and “I Love Dick” Consulting Producer Brett Paesel, helps you break down your script into 5 essential movements, a unique form of structure. In this capacity, she assists directors and writers...
TV Pilot Intensive
The New York Screenwriter's Lab @ Virtual Classroom
The NYSL 2-Part TV Pilot Itensive will give you a comprehensive overview of the structure and elements that combine to create a successful TV show (comedy or drama). Through lecture, exercises an discussion, the topics covered will include: The various structures used in TV. And which structure will best suit the need of your show. How to pack your show with enough conflict to generate multiple seasons worth of fresh-feeling...
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Screenplay 1: Writing for the Screen
The virtual screenwriting course will be taught by award-winning filmmaker Pedro Resto. The focus of the course is to help students develop an original idea into a screenplay draft. By using accelerated screenwriting techniques, students will learn the fundamentals of writing for film. Upon completion of the course, students will have a short screenplay written to add to their portfolio. The course will cover the following: Introduction...
Game of Pens: A TV Writer’s Room Survival Workshop
To take your place in a coveted Hollywood writers’ room, you’ll need more than just a killer sample. You’ll need an edge that allows you to hit the ground running from day one, experience. In this three-hour live online Writers’ Room Survival Bootcamp, The Handmaid’s Tale writers/producers Nina Fiore and John Herrera demystify the inner workings of the elusive world of Hollywood television development by breaking down the hierarchy, politics,...
$115
TV: Pilot Musts & Sellable Premises
Your premise is the DNA of your TV series and pilot. In this one-day concept development class, uber screenwriter Mike Ellis (16 scripts sold, Netflix’s Insatiable, Development Executive) will show you how to build your show idea from the ground up while breaking it down to its most essential elements. You’ll also learn pilot do’s, don’ts and musts as well the ingredients of a successful premise. Students will also get feedback on their...
$125
Writing The Microbudget Screenplay
This class will prepare you to write a feature length movie. If you're looking for TV writing classes, click here. What do Christopher Nolan, Darron Aronofsky and Richard Linklater have in common? They broke into the biz by writing and producing a feature film for under $30,000. In this three-hour screenwriting seminar, indy writer and director Steven Peros, whose microbudget feature, Footprints, was released in six cities and was hailed as “One...
$115
Beginning Feature Film Writing
When you plan a long-distance trip to a place you’ve never been before, do you just hop in the car and start driving and hope for the best? Writing a screenplay is also a long trip into unknown territory. There are hundreds of complex decisions to be made during the trip. That’s why making a few basic decisions before you start can both reduce stress and make sure you’re heading in the right direction. Whether you are a writer looking to understand...
All levels
16 and older
Your Million Dollar Idea: Generating Story
Your Million Dollar Idea: Generating Story For Nonfiction, TV and Film You want to find the tale that becomes a Moth-winning story or NY Times Modern Love essay but you’re creatively stumped. Or maybe your manager needs you to bring three killer new ideas to your pitch at FX tomorrow and the well has run dry. What to do? In this one-day Idea Generation Seminar, Moth Host and BATS Main Company Performer Corey Rosen will help you bust through...
$95
TV Fellowship 101
TV fellowships can be provide front door access to your TV writing career through mentorship and meetings with studio execs, showrunners and in some cases, staffing. But with thousands of applications and a handful of spots, competition is stiff. In this three-hour Online Fellowship 101 class, former NBC Writers on The Verge Manager, CBS Fellow and current staff writer Krystal Banzon takes you through the current fellowship landscape as well as...
TV Pilot Script Formatting
Note: This is primarily a lecture class, so most students will not get to share their writing for feedback due to the seminar format. You have a fantastic idea for the next blockbuster sci-fi space opera but when it comes to writing your opus in Final Draft, you’re stumped. In this one-day Script Formatting class, scribe Steve Peros (22 projects sold) takes you through the paces of screenwriting essentials. You’ll start with scene basics...
Developing Your Sitcom Pilot
DBA Flappers University @ 118 E Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA
Do you dream of making the leap from comedy club stage to household television screen? Do you have the perfect idea for your own sitcom, but just don't know how to put it all together on the page? In this intense three-hour workshop, you'll learn about the basics of sitcom structure, and begin to get an understanding of how to develop and outline your very own sitcom pilot! Topics covered include: -Types of Sitcoms -Distribution Types -Character...
$49
Write Your Drama Pilot in Six Weeks
Television pilot writing was once a carefully guarded inner sanctum limited almost exclusively to showbiz insiders. With the recent explosion of successful cable dramas and Internet viewing, it’s now possible for writers without a strong track record or network connections to get producers and executives to read and sometimes even buy their pilot scripts. If you sell a pilot, you’ve reached the pinnacle of TV writing success. It’s extremely...
All levels
16 and older
Writing Your Comedy Movie
DBA Flappers University @ 118 E Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA
Filmmaking begins with story development and script writing. This workshop covers techniques to crafting a quality, marketable screenplay. Topics will include loglines, genres, characters, dialogue, story structure, rules, Aristotle´s Poetics, and common mistakes. This material is for current and would-be comedic short and feature film screenwriters, directors, producers, and actors. You will benefit from the perspective of an experienced writer...
$49
The Fundamentals of Screenwriting: Solid Foundation
Have an amazing idea for a movie, but don’t know how to begin writing it? Get your screenplay on the track to success with the Fundamentals of Screenwriting online course. This four-week class is the perfect introduction to the fantastic world of writing a script, from the fundamentals of the story down to the revision process. In this course, you will gain the tools to structure your scenes, your acts, and your plots. At each step, you will receive...
All levels
16 and older
Script Development
Studio Arts @ Virtual Learning
There is no point in a great idea sitting in your head… or on your computer. There are so many opportunities for you to make your own films, publish your own books and produce your own plays there are no excuses why you cannot and should not. This class helps show you how to take your “brilliant idea” and, in one week, lay the groundwork for turning it into a viable project. Whether it is the great American novel or the indie film, it is time...
Sketch Level I: Intro to Sketch
This workshop is geared toward all levels of experience. Hundreds have participated in Eric’s Workshop, ranging from people who have never written a scene in their lives, to well-known comedians, professional screenwriters, and TV Producers. It’s geared toward beginners and the experienced. If you’ve taken sketch writing before, you’ll discover new ways to make it easier, even more fun, all while increasing your productivity.
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