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SUMMARY:Starting in Screenwriting
DESCRIPTION:Taking Your first Steps in Screenwriting with Gary Hewitt.\n\nSold out – Please contact Refractive to find out about the next screenwriting workshop programme.  \n\nDo you have a excellent idea for a film and want to turn it into a script? Have you already started a screenplay and hit a wall? New screenwriters will be able to learn the concepts and techniques of storytelling and look at how to develop and structure a screenplay by using hands-on\, interactive learning. This will provide new screenwriters with the skills and techniques required to kickstart their imagination as an emerging screenwriter. These workshops will help unlock storytelling potential of scripted dialogue and express dramatic ideas on the page. You’ll receive friendly\, constructive feedback throughout the course and have the opportunity to discuss and share your script ideas with a group of fellow writers. This can be an incredibly useful part of the creative process\, helping you develop the style and scope of your writing. \nPLEASE NOTE: fluency in English is required for this course. \nSCREENWRITING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (ROUGH BREAKDOWN) \nEach class would be a 3hour class\, with a 20min break for students to network and ask questions. \nMONTH 1 – PROJECT TREATMENT – 28th Aug\nLearn the craft of writing your project treatment: \n\nLogline\nSynopsis\nGenres\nTones & themes\n\nMONTH 2 – CHARACTERS – 25th Sept\nLearn how to develop your characters including: \n\nCharacter Arcs and character motivations\nProtagonists\nAntagonists\n\nWriting unlikable protagonists & inhuman antagonists \nMONTH 3 – STRUCTURE – 23rd Oct\nLearn how to map out the structure of your script with: \n\n3 Act Structure\nturning points & midpoints (SOTL & titanic will be used as examples)\nconflicts\n\nMONTH 4 – STEP OUTLINE – 27th Nov\nLearn how to write out your Step-outlines and work out if your project will be written from an omniscient narrative\, restrictive narrative or an unrealisable narrative. \nMONTH 5 – SCREENPLAY FORMATTING – XMAS DAY – So need to make it 18th DEC\n\nScreenplay Formatting\nUsing the white space\nWriting unfilmable‘s\nBest script software to use\n\nMONTH 6 – SCENE STRUCTURE – 22nd  Jan\nWe will go in-depth into writing Scenes including: \n\nScene structure\nis the scene needed?\nWriting opening scene\nCharacter introduction and Status and power in scenes\nGuest Speaker\n\nMONTH 7 – MCGUFFIN’S AND OTHER ITEMS – 26th Feb\n\nFind out the difference between Talismans & McGuffins\nset ups and payoffs Chekov’s gun. (Shaun of the dead & EEAAO will be used as examples)\n\nMONTH 8 – WORLD BUILDING – 25th March\nWorld building and visual storytelling. \n\nDoes the rules of your world make sense\nAre the rules clear from the start\nA prologue\nCan you move the story forward in other ways rather than Dialogue\n\nMONTH 9 – REWRITING  – 22nd April\nWhat’s the best way to go about rewriting your script. \n\nTake a vacation From Your First Draft\nKill Your Darlings – Can any CHARACTERS or PLOTS be cut out or combined?\nWrite from each character POV (treat them as your main character)\nCan you identify the CATALYST\, FIRST ACT BREAK\, MIDPOINT\, SECOND ACT BREAK\, and CLIMAX?\nDoes the main character have a clear ARC?\nDo the STAKES escalate throughout the script?\nDo the SUBPLOTS connect to the main plot? Is a THEME emerging?\n\nMONTH 10 – ONE ON ONE MEETINGS – 27th May\nLet’s look at your project one on one \n\nWhat issues are you having?\nHow far along are you with the script?\nHow can we make it better?\n\nMONTH 11 – EXPOSITION & WRITING BETTER DIALOGUE – 24th June\n\nHow to write exposition properly.\nHow can you tell the story through meaningful dialogue.\nExposition should be brief\nExposition through character\n\nMONTH 12 – TAKING YOU SCRIPT INTO THE WORLD – 22nd July\n\nCreating Pitch decks\,\nEntering competitions\nFinding agents\nGuest Speaker\n\nTUTOR\nClasses are taught by award-winning filmmaker Gary J Hewitt who has been working in the industry for over 10years. Gary J Hewitt is a Screenwriter and Director from Glasgow\, Scotland. His debut feature film Cleek has its festival run in 2018. It was distributed by Shami Media Group on Amazon Prime and later went to DVD on March 15th 2019. Following the success of Cleek. Gary directed multi award winning film ‘Mia: A Rapture 2.0 Production’. The film won over 10 awards including Best British Film\, Best Film and the IAC Diamond Award at BIAFF. Since then\, Mia: A Rapture 2.0 Production has been distributed by North American company Meridian Releasing Group and can be purchased on Amazon. Gary’s most recent project The Defender (currently in Production) ranks in the top 30% in coverfly\, was one of 6 semi-finalists at FILM MARKET HUB\, scored 7.5/10 on SCREENCRAFT and was a quarter finalist . \nFINAL WORDS\nThis will serve as a fantastic platform to jump-start screenwriting careers for people who have had no formal education or experience in the field. The class will provide an intuitive structure to the art of screenwriting and will be a creative home where writers develop their craft. It is designed to offer personalised attention to your ideas\, with an emphasis on industry expectations and standards. \nOnce the fundamentals have been established the students will be able to immediately put these new skills to use by writing their own scripts.
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