Transform Your Ideas into a Script – A Basic Creative Screenwriting Course

20 Jun - 08 Aug, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Online Content

$10.00

Fancy a stab at creative writing through scriptwriting? You may have a great story idea that you think might work as a short film, but how do you begin to pen it down? How do you develop and write strong characters whilst setting up your story and theme up meaningfully for your audience? Join us in this Basic Creative Screenwriting course to learn all that (and more!) from Wee Li Lin, a writer-director with more than 20 years of experience writing for feature and short films.

Every Saturday,
10.30am – 12.30pm (2hrs each; 8 sessions in total)
20, 27 June
4, 11, 18, 25 July
1, 8 August

Venue: Online; 1-on-1 course with instructor (Only 12 slots available!)
Target Audience: Youths ages 15-35 with an interest in scriptwriting and creative writing; no pre-existing knowledge required
Fee: $10 committment fee

Course Outline:

Session 1: Introduction; Fundamentals of screenwriting; Close-analysis of short film; Preparing a short synopsis for idea pitching
Session 2: Analysis of own chosen clip; Developing characters and themes
Session 3: Idea pitching with feedback; Refining idea & developing long synopsis
Session 4: Long synopsis sharing with feedback
Session 5: Deepening characterisation and story stakes/conflict/tensions; Developing a script
Session 6: Refined long synopsis and/or script sharing with feedback
Session 7: Further refinement of long synopsis and/or script with feedback
Session 8: Script-reading session with feedback

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Identify the fundamentals of creative screenwriting
Pick up skills to close-analyse a short film
Develop and pitch your idea through writing of short synopsis
Set up your characters and themes meaningfully in relation to the story
Refine and further develop a long synopsis and/or a script
Analyse and/or script-read your work with your peers
Receive guidance and feedback on your progress from the instructor

*Note that the technical formatting of scripts will not be explicitly covered as the course primarily focuses on the process of creative screenwriting.