scriptwriting
Scriptwriting
Date: Autumn 2011
Time: Saturday 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
Sunday 2.00pm - 7.00pm
Location: Northern Visions
Price: £125 (Concession £95)
Self contained 2-day Intensive Script Writing Workshop with award winning filmmaker Laurence Henson.
Given monthly in Dublin since 1997 this excellent workshop has been taken by people from a wide range of ages and backgrounds – from those with no writing experience to novelists & professional scriptwriters.
Each student takes away a bound booklet of course notes for future reference.
Workshop covers: positioning the audience – Hollywood and Europe – Aristotle who? – the writing process-screenplay structure and how it works – difference between cinema and TV – making a scene – identification – forming characters-secrets of dialogue – show not tell narrative drive – genre – adaptation – layout – legal – selling your screenplay.
Tutor: Laurence Henson
“Fantastic! Your programme really hits the mark!” – Glen McCoy BBC Eastenders scriptwriter
…and past participants at Northern Visions –
“Excellent – a sense that you were learning from someone who had direct experience”;
“Very detailed, constructive, well planned and paced”;
“Top drawer – inspiring”;
“Laurence was brilliant”;
“Absolutely fantastic”;
“I wish I had gone on this course years ago.”
Number of participants: 12-18
Lunch is provided on Saturday and snack and refreshments on Sunday.
This workshop takes place over two consecutive days
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