
Learn essential screenwriting lessons drawn from a master's degree in screenwriting from the best film school in Spain, emphasizing hard, necessary study.
Trace the origin of the screenplay and how cinema built the three act structure from the human attentional process, Greek tragedy, and dramatic arc in modern film.
Explore the three-act structure and dramatic arc, from inciting events and first plot points to shockpoints that activate audience attention and drive internal and external change.
Master the fundamentals of the story by tying space and time to the plot, creating conflict, and aligning with the audience.
Explore how semiotics shapes filmmaking by encoding meaning in every frame—from figure-ground perception and color to sound and dramatic irony—to engage audiences and deepen storytelling.
Explore the second act as the story's center, with two halves—fun and games and a negative half—driven by the character's skills, the midpoint, and pivotal turning points toward resolution.
Explore how the third act centers on a character's final, emotionally charged decision that drives the climax, with open or anticlimactic endings illustrated by Terminator 2 and Braveheart.
Learn to craft a high concept, synopsis, tagline, logline, and storyline for a film, outlining three acts, midpoint challenges, and the producer's guiding role.
Explore how to write narrative scenes by distinguishing action, reaction, and descriptive types, emphasize characters' goals, time, and visual actions, and organize scenes with a 90-minute structure using frame tables.
Explore how the intimacy process plot centers on two characters negotiating contradictions and intimate dilemmas within shared circumstances, often alongside a broader causal goal.
Explore twenty character plots, from the quest and discovery arcs to metamorphosis and love, showing how transformation drives the protagonist and reveals core themes in film.
Explore how horror plots hinge on open doors and surprise to fuel sequels, while distinguishing terror from horror through dream-like imagery and oneiric ambiguity.
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In this Bey Atelier in Screenwriting, students will learn how to write a professional screenplay from scratch with discipline and knowledge. This course provides students with the necessary tools to write a screenplay by studying and analyzing scenes from movies and short films.
Baudilio Perez, the course instructor, has gathered his knowledge from the best film schools in Spain (ESCAC) and his professional experience in writing and directing films.
The course covers the history of the film script, starting from the moment when cinema industrialization began. Students will learn the classic structure of a film script and its relationship with the dramatic arc of a character.
The influence of Greek tragedy on the histories of the 20th and 21st centuries is also discussed, along with the process developed over generations.
Students will learn the general rules of writing and the fundamentals of the story, supported by Robert McKee's theory. They will also learn how to create each of the three acts of the classic structure of a screenplay with examples on the screen.
The course will cover creating a synopsis from a small idea by learning the concepts of Tagline, Logline, and Storyline. Additionally, students will learn the professional narrative strategies behind film writing, such as Anticipatory signs, Ellipsis, and Dramatic irony.
The main types of plots used in creating a screenplay and the theory of the 20 subplots that can be developed with a film script are also taught.
Furthermore, the course will provide a method developed by the instructor to write hundreds of stories and develop them with a professional production team. By taking this course, students will have the skills to write a movie script with confidence.
"I really hope that you can take advantage of all the knowledge gained from years of study and real professional experiences in the industry. Each class in this course will actually enable you to write a movie script"
Baudilio Bey Pérez