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September 2021 - An Introduction to Scriptwriting
Module Zero - Getting Started
Housekeeping
Set Up Your Gravatar
Technical Queries
Code of Conduct
About the Course
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Module One – Ideas and outlines
Writing scripts – an introduction
Task: Read a script
The forms
Exercise: Ideas
Building characters
Exercise: Create a character
Exercise: Wants and needs
What we've got so far
Assignment One: One page synopsis
Module Two - Film
Software
Exercise: Visual narrative storytelling
Exercise: Action and consequence
Story Structure
Three act structure
Blake Snyder's plot structure
Exercise: Beat sheet
Exercise: The Logline
Assignment Two: The start of a script
Module Three - Theatre
Writing for theatre
Read: Extract of Ephigenia in Splott
Exercise: Speech and dialogue
Exercise: Power and status
Things to look out for
Monologues
Structure
Exercise: Theme and story
Assignment Three: 5 page play
Module Four - Radio
Task: Familiarise yourself with radio scripts
Sound
Exercise: Dialogue
Exercise: Setting
Exercise: One-page synopsis
Exercise: Lyricism
To summarise...
Assignment Four: Radio script
Module Five - Writing for TV
Another visual medium
Exercise: Counting your words
Exercise: Exposition
Exercise: Point of view
Conflict
Exercise: The dramatic action
Dialogue
Exercise: A deep character circle
World-building
Exercise: Using scene directions
Assignment Five: The verbal pitch
Module Six - Next Stages
Rewriting
Exercise: Editing
What next?
Getting an agent
PItching
Exercise: Voice
And finally...
Exercise: Point of view
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