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The FADE IN: The Screenplay Sessions (FI:TSS) workshop introduces aspiring and seasoned screenwriters to a wider and deeper scope of writing for the screen. Screenwriting is more than knowing how to properly structure, plot & format a screenplay or, write a sellable feature film, or episodic serial. This workshop offers insight and perspectives that will expand your knowledge of the screen arts and help you, I believe, pursue your creative and professional ambitions confidently.  After attending “The Screenwriting Sessions”, you’ll have an improved ability and understanding how to create screenplays and navigate the expanding opportunities and increasing demand for  screen content throughout the global markets. Increasing your knowledge of ‘how to’, ‘when to’, ‘with whom’ and ‘where to’ from here ensures a greater confidence while pursuing your alphabet adventures & motivate you to succeed as an accomplished, marketable screenwriter.

 

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So, what's this 4 Hour Workshop all about?

 

​Words & Their Spaces

Creating and selling a compelling screenplay requires an understanding of the nature of words, their rhetorical values, their placement and purpose on a blank page. You must understand “which words, where” and know your determination of those choices will – for any number of reasons – determine the way your screenplay is perceived by ‘gatekeepers’, producers, actors, agents, managers, et.al.; ultimately, by the audience viewing your produced story for the screen.

 

Screenwriter as Psychologist

Writing an audience-worthy [sellable] screenplay requires screenwriters to have a developed sense of human perception, motivation and behavior. And, while you may feel your own experiences or personal observations stand as an example to the behavior of your characters, there is a necessary ‘break’ from your ‘reality’ that must take place so that the perceptions and behavior (i.e) motives and choices of your characters bear out in a believable outcome – even if the suspension of belief is required. (Think about/read any of screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman’s screenplays…)

 

More than Words

You must have a grasp of not mere human experience, [or just great ‘ideas/concepts’] but an understanding of how the production process is determined and guided to fruition by your ability to synthesize your story concept and characters with the reality of production. Ultimately, the story – whether it’s your own ‘life’ story, an adaptation of another’s work, or an original, speculative [spec] script, or episodic serial – must be constructed freely throughout one’s imagination while remaining within the constraints of screenwriting formats and exhibition venues long established in the storytelling environment. After all, tens to hundreds of creative and technical members of a production work from a foundation and vision set-forth in your screenplay.

 

Ink to Screen

We’ll focus on the worldview of your story, intimacies of your characters, dialogue, and all the screenplay elements, along with various screenwriting models and industry stages that bring your screenplay into screen reality. Whether it’s ‘ink’ from an inkwell, ballpoint or fountain pen by your own hand, or an inkjet or laser printer, it’s your ideas, thoughts, WORDS, sweat and tears ultimately creating ScreenINK.

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“The Screenwriting Sessions”:

 

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• Session 1  / General Storytelling

• Session 2 / Storytelling for the Screen

• Session 3 / Screenplay Elements & Models

• Session 4 / Getting Representation

• Session 5 / Selling the Screenplay

• Session 6 / Screenwriting as a Career

• Session 7 / Working as a Hyphenate (i.e.) Writer/Director/etc.

• Session 8 / The Industry

• Session 9 / Technology & Tools & Resources

• Session 10 / Nuance and Necessities

• BONUS Session / The Motion Picture/Television Process

 

What to Bring:   Pen & Big Chief Tablet or laptop/tablets

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Notice of Broadcast:     Attendance gives ScreenINK consent to use your likeness on ScreenINK's website (& elsewhere) for promotion, instruction, etc.

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