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Narrative Design: Screenwriting for Games and Movies
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Narrative Design: Screenwriting for Games and Movies

A Practical Beginner's Guide for Screenwriters and Aspiring Writers
Created byPhoebe Jaspe
Last updated 5/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Master your Creativity through the Writing Process
  • Character Profiles: Creating your Protagonist
  • Real-Life Experiences: Capturing Ideas by Traveling the World
  • Preparation before Writing: The importance of Skeletons and Arcs
  • Conjuring Ideas through Dreams, Politics, Philosophy and Psychology
  • What happens in a Writer's Room?
  • Research: How a Narrative Designer uses Research in his writing for Video Games
  • Understanding Freewill, Temporality and the Nature of Reality

Course content

3 sections16 lectures2h 50m total length
  • Introduction2:13

    An introduction to the process of writing with James Exarcopoulos and Phoebe Jaspe.

  • What is a Narrative Designer?2:04

    Understand the role of a Narrative Designer

  • The Starting Point for Beginners15:00

    Learn how to Write a Treatment, Understand the Different Arcs in Storytelling and the application of The Hero's Journey in Films and Video Games

  • Writer's Life10:34

    The hardships and challenges a writer faces in their career.

  • Technical Constraints in Writing12:48

    James Ex will provide the answers of the technical constraints he faces in his writing career.

  • Trauma, Media and Referencing13:00

    How to we implement trauma in our writing?

Requirements

  • Interested in Writing and Narrative Design
  • Love for Storytelling and Writing

Description

Become a better Narrative Designer, Writer and Screenwriter by applying different modes of Storytelling, Philosophy and Thought. This course is like Occam's Razor, we will get straight to the point.

These game-changing lectures are informed by a Narrative Designer in the Games Industry and a Filmmaker with a Bachelors in Film & Media Production that has attended Cannes Film Festival. With our 10-years of international experience, we have freelanced and networked our way through Europe, Asia and the Middle East within the Film and Games Industry. You will gain practical and unconventional knowledge about the writing process, constructing reality with philosophical theories and the secrets of standing out from the crowd.

Who this course is for:

  • Filmmakers
  • Screenwriters
  • Writers
  • Students of Game Design who are interested in becoming Narrative Designers
  • Students of Film Production who are interested in becoming a Writer
  • Game Designers & Developers
  • Novelists
  • Storytellers