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SUMMARY:Starting in Screenwriting with Gary Hewitt
DESCRIPTION:Take your first steps in screenwriting with Gary Hewitt.\n\nA monthly writing workshop running over 12 months\, these in-person workshops are for beginners and those interested in screenwriting. Do 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nPLEASE NOTE: fluency in English is required for this course.\n\n\n\nSCREENWRITING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (ROUGH BREAKDOWN)\nEach class will run on the first Monday of every month\, 7-9.30pm at Refractive Production Hub. The classes will be a 2.5 hours long with a break for refreshments. \nMONTH 1 – PROJECT TREATMENT – Monday 2nd September 2024\nLearn the craft of writing your project treatment: \n\nLogline\nSynopsis\nGenres\nTones & themes\n\nMONTH 2 – CHARACTERS – Monday 7th October 2024\nLearn how to develop your characters including: \n\nCharacter Arcs and character motivations\nProtagonists\nAntagonists\n\nWriting unlikable protagonists & inhuman antagonists \nMONTH 3 – STRUCTURE – Monday 4th November 2024\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 – Monday 2nd December 2024\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 – Monday 6th January 2025\n\nScreenplay Formatting\nUsing the white space\nWriting unfilmable‘s\nBest script software to use\n\nMONTH 6 – SCENE STRUCTURE – Monday 3rd February 2025\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 – Monday 3rd March 2025\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 – Monday 7th April 2025\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  – Monday 5th May 2025\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 – Monday 2nd June 2025\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 – Monday 7th July 2025\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 – Monday 4th August 2025\n\nCreating Pitch decks\,\nEntering competitions\nFinding agents\nGuest Speaker\n\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 . \n\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.
URL:https://refractive.scot/event/starting-in-screenwriting-with-gary-hewitt/
LOCATION:Refractive Hub\, 3rd Floor Witherspoon Building\, Storie St\, Paisley\, PA1 2AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Industry Session :   Greening your Film and Digital Practice
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first of our Refractive Industry Sessions: Wednesday 2nd April 2025 at 1.30pm. \n  \n  \nDiscover practical ways to make your film and digital work more sustainable.\nOur speakers for the afternoon session are Dan Bernard of Fast Familiar (Digital Story Studio) and Sarah Hamilton recently appointed Screen Sustainability Consultant\, at Climate for Culture in Scotland who will talk about operating BAFTA Albert in Film Production (Bafta Albert is the official sustainability initiative for the Film and TV Industry). \n  \nIn recent years artists\, galleries cultural institutions have become increasingly interested in digital engagement and this was rapidly accelerated by the COVID 19 pandemic. At the same time\, the cultural sector has become increasingly motivated to take action in response to the climate crisis. However\, too little attention has been paid to the environmental impact of digital cultural production\, perhaps because these impacts often seem to be invisible or to take place in another part of the world. In this talk we will explore the environmental impact of digital activities and discover a series of strategies that artists and cultural organisations can adopt to reduce their digital environmental impact. \n  \nDan Bernard’s  talk will draw on a series of case study interviews with artists that Fast Familiar\, Abandon Normal Devices and Arts Catalyst did as part of their project The Networked Condition\, which was supported by Julies Bicycle and Arts Council England. It will also discuss the ways in which Fast Familiar have attempted to lower the impact of their own artistic practice and the tools they have created to help others do the same\, which include a tool to measure the carbon footprint of digital cultural production and a free tool to help artists and small cultural organisations build low carbon websites.  The talk will also discuss the environmental impact that AI and cryptocurrency are having and consider what\, if anything\, artists can do about it. \nSara Hamilton will talk about the practicalities of Bafta Albert and the methodologies they offer: \n\nWant to make greener productions but don’t know where to begin? The Bafta Production Handbook is full of tips\, advice and case studies from your peers to help you make sustainable changes to the way you work. Imagine walking on to location\, silent except the sound of the crew. Imagine walking into the studio\, lights ablaze but air fresh and cool. Imagine sitting in the production office\, safe in the knowledge that the only impact of the activity co-ordinated is cultural. Imagine it\, because it’s where we are heading – powered by the wind and the rays of the sun.\nClimate content – The screen industries have a crucial role to play in solving climate change. Reducing the footprint of productions is important. But\, by far\, the greatest opportunity to make an impact is through the content we put on screen.\n\nAbout Dan Bernard\nImage Dan Bernard\n  \nDan Barnard is joint lead artist of Digital Story Studio Fast Familiar and a doctoral researcher in the Informatics Department at the University of Sussex. He is a member of the Association for Research in Interactive Digital Narratives (ARDIN). \nFast Familiar collaborated with Abandon Normal Devices and Arts Catalyst on The Networked Condition\, a Julies Bicycle/Arts Council England Accellerator project which explored the environmental impact of digital cultural production through a series of artistic experiments\, case study interviews and the creation of a carbon measuring tool focused on the digital elements of artistic projects. Fast Familiar have also created a tool to help artists build low carbon websites. \nFast Familiar’s recent work includes Looking for Love\, which premiered at Science Gallery London as part of their: AI: Who’s Looking After Me? Exhibition The Acquisitions Panel\, which received a Jury Special mention at Sheffield Doc Fest 2022 and won the Activist Museum Award\, Do What You Must\, which was selected to be part of the Official Cultural Programme at COP26 and The Evidence Chamber\, which was described by the New York Times as “an especially successful way for theater to be enjoyed via a laptop.” \nFor a decade from 2014 to 2024\, Dan was a Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University\, where he taught Multimedia Performance and led the Digital Performance research group. \n 
URL:https://refractive.scot/event/industry-session-greening-your-film-and-digital-practice/
LOCATION:Refractive Hub\, 3rd Floor Witherspoon Building\, Storie St\, Paisley\, PA1 2AR\, United Kingdom
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