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Script Workshops

I've been asked to circulate this. But please do note the huge number of opportunities listed in last post. I'm going to do a newsletter of some kind. Some good script workshops here.


Scripting Futures is a programme of screenwriting activity funded by Screen WM and run by Script in partnership with Red Room Films, Hello Digital and Animation Forum West Midlands. Each workshop is £50 (£40 concessions). For booking details, visit www.scriptonline.net/screen.html or email catherine.edwards@scriptonline.net

Sitcom: Beginners (Keith R Lindsay)
Saturday 20 th March 2010 
Woodward Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute
In this hands-on workshop, participants will engage in the process of creating a situation comedy from the initial concept all the way to writing the first and most important page of the script. The conclusion of the workshop will offer instructions on the technical side of putting together a script and suggestions for a professional approach to finding a market for the participants' own work. By the end of the session those attending should have a set of guidelines to help them avoid many of the pitfalls of the newer writer setting out on his or her sit com script.
Sitcom: Advanced (Keith R Lindsay)
Saturday 27th March 2010 
Woodward Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute 
The Advanced Workshop offers a practical, hands on approach to developing ideas for situation comedy, with extended reference to the participants' own concepts. The conclusion of the workshop will include advice on markets for those already armed with scripts and the best type of scripts to write for the current market.
Creating Animated Documentary (Professor Paul Wells)
Wednesday 31 st March 2010, 10am-5pm
The Bond, Fazeley Street
Using a variety of ‘real world' materials and ‘live' issues, and deploying a range of devising strategies, this workshop will look at the relationship between animation and documentary, creating a visual treatment for a proposed animated documentary.
Sci-Fi and Fantasy (Claire Ingham)
Saturday 10th April 2010
BVSC, Digbeth (10am-5pm)
Eight of the top ten grossing movies of all time are from the science fiction or fantasy genres.  Science fiction transports audiences to worlds light years away, to alternate realities, fantastic technologies and new social orders. Fantasy opens the door to new possibilities, transforms science with myth and magic and re-examines the spiritual. But how can screenwriters take the world and twist it so convincingly that audiences come back to escape again and again?  This 1 day course will examine the conventions that define the science fiction and fantasy genres and look at some of the ways that filmmakers are breaking the ‘rules' and splicing genres together to create new and original stories. By the end of the course you should have acquired a deeper knowledge of the science fiction and fantasy genres along with specific tips and techniques to progress your own scripts and ideas.


Devising Animated Narratives (Professor Paul Wells)
Wednesday 14th April 2010, 10am-5pm
The Bond, Fazeley Street
Using a range of devising exercises and development strategies this workshop will seek to create the conditions for the preparation of structuring and pre-visualising an animated narrative.

Crime and Detective Thriller (Claire Ingham)
Saturday 24th April 2010
BVSC, Digbeth (10am-5pm)
Crime is a massively popular and commercially successful genre – and our fascination with it has deep cultural and psychological roots. Crime stories play on our fears, allow us into the dark places of the criminal mind – and permit us to test ourselves against those that hunt and investigate. But within ‘Crime' there are several subgenres each with their own set of principles and conventions. This one day ‘Crime Thrillers' course will look particularly at those stories that combine Detective or criminal protagonists with the action and suspense of the thriller, assess how these films are structured – and look at some of the ways that writers are moving the crime thriller genre on. By the end of the course you should have acquired a deeper knowledge of crime and detective stories, along with specific tips and techniques to further your own thriller scripts and ideas. 


Catherine Edwards
Programmes Director, Script
0121 224 7415
www.scriptonline.net

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