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How do you write a screenplay that might get bought by studio or a production company? Write a compelling script that’s impossible to stop reading, vividly cinematic, properly formatted, and realistically produce-able.
Our screenwriting courses will help you meet these criteria, and also guide you in creating characters, building plots, shaping scenes, sharpening dialogue, and, of course, peddling your script. Whether you seek to write big Hollywood movies or low-budget indies, we’ll show you what it takes to get in the screenplay game.
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Level I
Screenwriting | 10-week Workshop
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Using a balance of lecture, exercise, and feedback on work from the instructor and classmates, this course gives students a firm grounding in all the basics of screenwriting. Everything is presented in a clear, accessible manner.
- Begin a feature-length screenplay
- Lectures on basics of screenwriting craft
- Writing exercises
- Present work for critique
Screenwriting I is for beginners or anyone who wants to brush up on the fundamentals.
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(3.0 CEU)
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Tuition:
$395, Returning Students $365 .
Registration Fee $25.
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Advanced
Screenwriting | 10-week Workshop
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Focusing on developing projects and receiving feedback from the instructor and classmates, this course helps students sharpen their skills and work toward completion of a saleable screenplay. Writers often repeat Screenwriting II to continue their projects.
- Work toward completion of a feature-length screenplay
- Lectures and exercises that expand on basics of screenwriting craft
- Engage in rewriting
- Present work for in-depth critique
Prerequisite: Screenwriting I or the equivalent.
Which level is right for you? How
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(3.0 CEU)
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Master Class
Screenwriting | 10-week Workshop
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The Screenwriting Master Class provides students deeply immersed in the writing of a screenplay with the opportunity to work with an experienced screenwriter and other dedicated writers in a small class setting. The class is devoted almost exclusively to workshopping — the reading, critiquing, and discussion of student screenplays. Every student will be allowed to workshop an entire screenplay. Class size is limited to six students, all of whom have completed a screenplay and are experienced in the workshop process.
Instructor: Max Adams wrote the feature screenplay for Excess Baggage (Columbia) and the initial adaptation for The Ladykillers (Touchstone). She is the recipient of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting and the Austin Film Festival's feature screenwriting award, and has worked with many of the major Hollywood studios and production companies. She is the author of The Screenwriter's Survival Guide (Warner Books). She has taught or lectured at Austin Film Festival, USC, Film Arts Foundation, and the New York Film Academy (L.A.). She holds a BFA from the University of Utah.
Prerequisites: The following are prerequisites for students who take the Screenwriting Master Class:
- A complete screenplay
- Completion of two terms of Gotham’s Screenwriting II class
- Acceptance by Gotham based on a sample of the student’s work
Registration: To be accepted into the Screenwriting Master Class all students must first submit a sample of their work. Your writing sample should be a complete or nearly completed screenplay. Ideally, you will submit the screenplay you plan to workshop in the Screenwriting Master Class. If that material is not yet available, you may submit another screenplay. You submit your work as part of your registration. Be sure to have your writing sample ready when you click the Enroll button, below.
A Note on the Class: All students in this class will be expected to read and critique segments of one hundred pages or more per week. The success of the class depends on the full participation of all students. Students should only take this course if they are confident they can handle the weekly load of reading and critiquing. To make this more manageable, students should have already done most or all of the work on the screenplay that they plan to present to the class before class begins.
A Note to Applicants: The Master Classes often get far more applicants than can be accepted, and so talented and dedicated students are often not accepted. If you are not accepted in a Master Class, you are welcome to apply another time, and you may well be accepted then.
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$545, No Discounts.
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