Screenwriting Workshop
What you'll learn
- Turn Your Idea Into a Screenplay
- Explore What Makes Movies Award Winners
- Create a Pitch That Sells Your Idea
- Develop Compelling Characters
- Structure Your Screenplay
- Learn Techniques That Make Scenes Leap Off The Page
- Polish Your Screenplay
- Discover Resources To Help Get Your Screenplay Noticed
Requirements
- Open to all aspiring writers, young or old, experienced or just beginning
Description
Do you have a great idea for a movie and want to turn it into a screenplay? Have you already started a screenplay and gotten stuck? Have you finished a screenplay but feel it needs polish? Screenwriting Workshop shows you how to accomplish all of these things and helps you market your work and get it onto the big screen.
In these fun and lively lessons, Dani Alcorn guides you on the path to success. You'll learn how to create and polish a screenplay step by step. Topics include:
- Story Structure
- Creating Compelling Characters
- Using Archetypes to Flesh Out Character
- The Hero's Journey
- Creating Treatments that Sell
- Developing the Perfect Beginning and Ending
- Making Your Theme Resonate
- Crafting Dialogue that Rings True
- Creating Action that Packs a Punch
- Controlling Pacing
- Screenplay Formatting
- Pitching a Great Idea
- Designing the Perfect Logline
- Online Resources for Screenwriters
- Marketing Your Screenplay
Whether you're just getting started or you're an experienced screenwriter, Screenwriting Workshop helps you turn your dream into a reality.
Who this course is for:
- First Time Screenwriters of Any Age
- Screenwriters with Unfinished or Unpolished Screenplays
Course content
- Preview08:11
- Preview05:01
- 03:57Top Grossing Genres
- 05:19Award Winning Films
- 09:44Movies Versus Television
- 09:15A Quick History of TV and Movies
Instructor
![Dani Alcorn](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 1,995 Reviews
- 25,940 Students
- 9 Courses
Dani is the author of the Young Adult novel The Last Telepath, and three screenplays:
A Quintessence of Dust, a science fiction riff on what would happen if Hamlet met Bladerunner
How to Catch an Englishman, a romantic comedy about moving overseas in search of an eligible bachelor
Do No Harm, a drama that explores the ethical choices facing a heart surgeon when her personal and professional lives collide
Dani graduated Summa Cum Laude from Northwestern University, where she majored in Psychology and Radio, Television, & Film.