Visual Approach to Screenwriting and Dramatic Storytelling

A complete guide to script writing: How to create your screenplay, from basics to techniques of top Hollywood writers

Created by: Andrew Kaplan
NY Times bestselling author and screenwriter

What Will I Learn?

• Learn how to write a professional-level screenplay or teleplay.
• Understand the Visual Approach to screen and television writing and why it matters.
• Learn essential industry concepts and selling tools like High Concept, the Pitch, and the Logline
• How to write the Slug Line and the Action paragraph.
• The Do's and Don'ts of writing dialogue that really works.
• How to hook the audience: The Setup and the Opening Shot.
• How to write exposition that isn't boring: Rules, ten Methods and Examples.
• How to write scenes and transitions
• How to create and sustain suspense.
• Using landscape as character or metaphor.
• Know the story you're telling and why it matters.
• How to create conflict, the Seven Types of Conflict, how to build to a climax and write the resolution.
• Endings: how not to screw it up and the best way to do it.

Requirements

• No previous screenwriting or creative writing experience necessary. You will learn everything you need to know.

Target audience

• Beginner to advanced screenwriters or fiction writers who seek to adapt their own work for a dramatic medium, such as film, TV, videogame, etc.