Brown Bag Script Workout Series - Workshop

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Cost: $10 for BDA members, $15 for non-members

Work out your screenwriting muscles at the "Script Workout" series from Boulder Digital Arts! Bring a brown bag lunch and plan to get usable information about how and why to write screenplays. Whether you just want to understand how they've carried you away on the silver screen, or you have the next great blockbuster floating around in your head, this class is for you. Each week we'll examine a piece of the screenwriting puzzle, adding knowledge and tools to your repertoire.

It is within normal expectations to spend three months developing the story of your script by working on your concept, characters, and treatment. To that end we'll begin at the beginning, even while you're encouraged to develop the adventurous middle and know how the story ends. You'll learn also to write with an eye towards the entertaining, commercial and exciting script product with clues about what producers might be looking for based on several time-honed questions.

In an hour and a half, you'll get a lesson on one necessary structural section of a screenplay, a tool to work with in exploring that section, and an exercise to practice. Practical application of these screenplay rules will help you build a viable product over time. We'll pick apart movies you love, and you'll discover how much knowledge you already have in hand as a movie lover.

As the series progresses each week, we'll develop your sense of pacing, and deepen your understanding of why you're compelled to answer a burning question in every successful screenplay. We'll learn about formatting, scene structure and dialogue. We'll break through blocks and find solutions to the gnarliest screenwriting problems (the middle, the middle, the middle).

Finally as the year draws to a close we'll examine the rewriting process, and the challenge of refining your work to its best, ready to face the serious competition for script development dollars in Hollywood. We'll explore the business of screenwriting, along with the multiple avenues for successfully marketing your script. Storytelling is a craft to be learned, and as with all crafts...practice makes perfect.

This series meets every Wednesday at BDA, from noon to 1:30 pm.

For complete details, please REGISTER at www.boulderdigitalarts.com. Boulder Digital Arts offers affordable training in digital media from professionals working in the field.

Submitted by Kira Woodmansee