Screenwriting is a complicated writing form that the masters can make look so easy. Over the course of four Saturdays we will be looking at how some of the best screenwriters solved problems we didn’t even know they had as well as mapping out a full movie idea from start to finish in the industry’s standard screenplay formatting.
4 Saturdays
1 Citizen Kane to Fast and Furious
Analyzing and brainstorming
Genre/setting keeping it realistic
2 Creating character through dialogue
From stereotype to flesh and blood
Show don’t tell
3 How to create tension and suspense
The inciting incident
Crisis/climax/resolution
4 Pacing, pacing, and then more pacing
Making it hang together
How to get your screenplay read
4 Saturdays
1 Citizen Kane to Fast and Furious
Analyzing and brainstorming
Genre/setting keeping it realistic
2 Creating character through dialogue
From stereotype to flesh and blood
Show don’t tell
3 How to create tension and suspense
The inciting incident
Crisis/climax/resolution
4 Pacing, pacing, and then more pacing
Making it hang together
How to get your screenplay read