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Writers Boot Camp: 5 Week Basic Training Screenwriting Course
- Item Number
- 1706
- Estimated Value
- 995 USD
- Sold
- 115 USD to hbe0b4cbf
- Number of Bids
- 3 - Bid History
Item Description
Go from idea to first draft in five weeks, and learn fundamentals for the big and small screen!
Since 1989, Writers Boot Camp has launched major writing careers at the highest levels of the film and television industry through intensive screenwriting classes, coursework, membership benefits and support to writers. Our alumni have hundreds of major writing credits and thousands of hours of produced television and web series, including A-List writers, filmmakers, actors, executives and Emmy, Tony, WGA, Webby and Academy Award winners.
Certificate for a 5-Week Basic Training Screenwrighting Course in Santa Monica. The course offers writers an opportunity to complete a script within 3 weeks after the last class, for which they will receive a Script Conference.
Five weeks of fundamentals and support while you write your feature, television pilot script or web series.
Writers Boot Camp's Basic Training course teaches comprehensive fundamentals while you write a first draft of your feature-length, TV pilot or web series. Class meetings are held one night a week for five weeks from 7:30–10:00pm. Each agenda assigns you in-class exercises and 10 hours of weekly writing tasks to expedite the development of your script.
Basic Training also includes weekly Office Hours via phone and email with your instructor for individual support outside of class for questions and creative reinforcement.
Week 1: Basic Training Introduction establishes a professional writing approach with an intensive syllabus, clear screenwriting definitions, work strategies and strict deadlines. Starting with as little as a single sentence, you'll start shaping your script idea, answer your questions about the film and television business, and begin defining the entertainment conceits and parameters of your project.
Week 2: Obstacle Course defines a main-character driven, four segment (three-act) screenplay structure, as well as strategies for character development. Unique tools empower expression of your ideas in accessible, professional terms to create a more dynamic, layered adventure. Structure is also broken down for half-hour and hour-long television, and articulates tools for short-form and how tools apply to any scene.
Week 3: Conflict Escalation helps you to write with a new understanding of the script page and format. You'll use a practical outlining approach to get past the opening of your script to develop the parts of the entire story, allowing you greater mobility between big picture story points and smaller scene choices. You'll learn distinctions of movies and TV and an accelerated writing technique to quickly build the pages of your script.
Week 4: Trench Warfare pushes you through the middle pages of your screenplay to discover new possibilities while you write. An advanced scene work checklist helps you evaluate your own style to get you writing more visually - leaving unnecessary material behind and making every part of your script entertaining. You'll compare your story to the character voices and parameters you've designed or are required by your show.
Week 5: Character Crossfire tests the motivations of your principal characters and connects the supporting roles to your main character's journey. A comprehensive evaluation checklist helps you review the tools you've learned, refine your project goals and reflect deeper thematic stakes in your scene choices.
Script D-Day (Deadline): Seven weeks from your first class session, you'll send your script (pdf format), along with a couple of renowned conceptual tools (Project Unity Page and 3-6-3), for evaluation by the Writers Boot Camp staff. You'll prepare for an individual conference (30-45 minutes via phone) using the Evaluation Checklist learned in class to create a set of notes for your ongoing rewrite objectives.
Item Special Note
There are 8 Basic Training Courses left this year. The two that are on the calendar right now begin on Tuesday, March 24th and the other on Monday, April 20th. The next ones will be between 5-6 weeks apart.
http://www.writersbootcamp.com/
Winning bidder is responsible for picking up item(s) at WISH Charter School the day after the auction closes. Non-local winning bidders may request shipping for an additional $2.
Auction Pick up:
Sunday, March 29, 2015
9am to 12pm
WISH Charter School
6550 W. 80th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(entrance on Emerson)
If you are unable to pick up on this day, pick up will be available the week WISH reopens after Spring Break, April 13-17. If shipping is requested, total plus shipping fees must be paid online within three days of auction close, and may take up to 5 business days for processing once payment has been received.
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