Screenwriting - Advanced
8 Wednesday Evenings **New Dates**
For those who wish to further develop current projects in a creative and stimulating environment, this course is an opportunity to brainstorm ideas with other writers and get feedback from a professional, practising screenwriter.
Cost: €280 waged / €260 unwaged
Deposit: €100
Tutor: Stephen Walsh
Dates: 18th August - 6th October
Screenwriting - Beginner **New Dates**
8 Tuesday Evenings
Eight evenings devoted to exploring the ins and outs of scriptwriting, geared towards those with little or no previous experience in the field. Priority is placed on putting a lot of the scary myths of screenwriting to rest and creating a context in which the participants can develop their own project over the duration of the course. People should come along armed with a story idea they'd like to pursue, whether it's at the "two lines on a scrap of paper" stage or even if they've already had a crack at a script.
Cost: €280 waged / €260 unwaged
Deposit: €100
Tutor: Stephen Walsh
Dates: 7th September - 26th October
Screenwriting - Beginner
8 Thursday Evenings
An introduction to the craft of screenwriting - developing character, writing the individual scene, dialogue, structure, format, writing for TV, writing comedy, rewriting techniques and writing treatments.
Cost: €280 waged / €260 unwaged
Deposit: €100
Tutor: Lindsay Sedgewick
Dates: 7th October - 25th November
Hollywood Screenwriting - Jumping the First Hurdle **NEW TO FILMBASE**
Every day in Hollywood producers, agents, actors and studio executives rceive thousands of scripts. How can you make sure that yours makes it past the first hurdle? This hurdle is actually a person - a script reader - and he or she can be many things: a stressed assistant, a summer intern, or - if you are lucky - someone who has spent years analyzing scripts and can recognize talent and potential when they see it.
A script reader is the first gatekeeper for your script, and since coverage is often kept on file and on databases that agencies and studios share, a “pass” in one place can mean that your script might not even get read at other places either.
This two to three hour workshop with experienced story analyst/editor James Bartlett will talk about the business of script reading, the differences between the US and UK film industries, and the ways to break into the US market.
Every writer has spent weeks, months and years working on their script, and now it’s finally ready to go out into the world: this lecture will give you the “Unlucky/Lucky 13” mistakes to make sure that it doesn’t fall at the first hurdle.
JAMES BARTLETT:
James Bartlett is a writer and journalist living in Los Angeles. He is also a story analyst for the Sundance Institute, National Geographic Films, New Regency, UCLA and the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Nicholl Screenwriting Awards, the US consultant for Euroscript, and a reader for several regional funders in the UK and Ireland.
Cost: €40 members / €55 non members
Further seminars TBA
BOOKING INFORMATION
Payment/Booking:
To book a place on any of these courses please contact Filmbase reception in person or call on 01 679 6716. Filmbase Reception opening hours 9.30am - 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.
VISA, MasterCard, Laser, company or personal cheque, cash (all in Euros) are all acceptable terms of payment.
Course Cancellation Policy:
If notice is received at least (i) 14 days in advance of the class, the Customer is entitled to a full refund, (ii) 7 days of the class, the customer is entitled to a full class credit which must be used within 3 months of the date of the original class to another class offered by Filmbase. Customer is not entitled to a refund or class credit if less than 7 day advance notice is given. Failure to provide notice at least 14 days in advance of the class obligates the Customer to pay the full price of the class.
Filmbase reserves the right to amend or cancel the date, time and location of a Training class including replacing the personnel who may be scheduled to deliver the Training. In the event a Training class is cancelled, the customer is entitled to a full refund. Filmbase shall not be responsible for any other loss incurred by Customer as a result of a cancellation or amendment.
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