Scriptwriting
- Description
- Curriculum
Learn essential scriptwriting skills and techniques with your instructor Steve. In this course we will provide details about all the elements that make up a story and the special format that allows you to deliver your script to a producer for eventual production. Subjects include:
- Screenwriter’s responsibilities
- Overview of premises and treatments
- Western narrative three-act story structure
- Themes
- Plots and characters
- Script format
- Practical script tips
- Indigenous script advice.
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Story Structure Intro -
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Themes
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Theme ExerciseIdentify movie themes in this non-graded exercise.
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Plots
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Characters
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Setting
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Pie Heist Introduction
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Pie Heist Movie
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Pie Heist - Short Film Excercise
Watch the short film Pie Heist and identify it's three act structure in this non-graded exercise.
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Introduction to Three-Act Structure
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Act One
This lesson will focus on the narrative structure of Act One
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Inciting Incident
This lesson provides additional instruction about the Inciting Incident in Act One
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Act Two
This lesson will focus on the narrative structure of Act Two
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Subplots
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Act Three
This lesson will focus on the narrative structure of Act Three
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Set Up and Pay Off
This lesson will focus on set-ups and pay-offs in narrative structure including a definition of Chekhov's Gun.
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A Simple Analysis
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Story Structure Assignment
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Steve's Startling Script Tips
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Bad Dialogue
This is an example of what NOT to do when writing a script.
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Formatting Scripts
How to format a script appropriately for submission.
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KIT Scenarist Screenwriting App
How to use KIT Scenarist script formatting app.
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Line Numbering
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FFSO Script Assignment
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Elective: Adama's Dream Movie and Script
Watch Adama's Dream https://youtu.be/lFHNBKDTfb4
