
Define a short film as 40 minutes or less. It builds your portfolio, aids festival exposure, and features a protagonist and an antagonist with essential tension.
Use slug lines and interior time stamps to introduce characters clearly. Show setting, actions, and dialogue in living rooms and bathrooms to bring scenes to life.
Picking up from part one of this course, I’ll provide a lecture on how to transform those exercises into a script structure and story format. Using writing examples and clips from my work, I’ll guide you to build a strong foundation for your story. This course helps:
Cultivate new and beginning storytellers with how-to’s, tools, and tips
Establish an environment where students feel safe to learn in a creative space
Inspire, motivate, and evoke thoughts to paper to help students find their authentic voice in script format
Writing a script can feel intimidating, but we all start as a beginner at some point. When a story is placed in your heart, trust that you will learn everything you need to know as you go along. You simply have to start. Do not talk yourself out of it and don't back down because you have to do the work. It's a part of the process. If you’ve made it this far, then you’ve already come a long way.
If you did not take the first portion of this course, that's okay. You can bring your ideas, or some will spark as you engage in the lectures.
I'll see you in class!