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Screen and Playwriting
International Open Academy

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Price
£15 inc VAT
Study method
Online
Duration
50 hours · Self-paced
Access to content
60 days
Qualification
No formal qualification
CPD
50 CPD hours / points
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Overview

It is everyone’s dream to take one of his or her beloved hobbies and turn it into a flourishing career. Writing for the screen and stage can be a very lucrative career if you know what you are doing.

Our online Screenwriting & Playwriting course is exactly what you need to finally stop talking about that screenplay or play you are going to write and do it. All it takes is a penchant for storytelling and a leap of faith.

Regardless of your level of experience, our online Screenwriting & Playwriting course is the first step you need. We help new writers who have never explored their creativity and accomplished screen and playwrights alike.

If you want to finally take action and become the screenwriter or playwright that you have always dreamed of becoming, enroll in our online Screenwriting & Playwriting course as soon as you can. The rest of your life starts as soon as you take this step, so don’t waste any time.

BONUS:

As part of your 1 FREE month membership access, you also gain free access to 300+ professional and personal development certified courses.

KEY COURSE BENEFITS:
• Course access: 60 days – Study at your own pace
• Internationally-recognized CPD accredited course
• Start learning straightaway from any laptop or mobile device in any country

CPD

50 CPD hours / points
Accredited by The CPD Certification Service

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Description

Our Screen and Playwriting online course will help you:

  • Get inspired
  • Understand how to write for the screen and stage
  • Create unique and real-life characters
  • Develop a strong plot
  • Learn to write engaging and realistic dialogue
  • Find your voice and style
  • Cure writer’s block

Screen and Playwriting Course Breakdown

Module 1: Inspiring Yourself

  • Where to get inspired
  • How to spark your ideas
  • Proper brainstorming techniques
  • How to vet your ideas

Module 2: Starting To Write

  • Logline
  • Thematic Question
  • Creating characters
  • Tone
  • Scene construction
  • Treatment

Module 3: How To Write A Screenplay

  • Understanding three-act structure
  • Beat sheet
  • “Scriptment”
  • Scene and action description
  • Dialogue
  • Approaches to writing a script

Module 4: Writing For The Stage

  • Play structures
  • Action description
  • Direction description elements
  • Stage limitations and advantages

Module 5: Creating Characters

  • Back-story
  • Character goal
  • Character tension
  • Finding your character’s voice
  • Dialogue

Module 6: Story Development

  • Developing themes
  • Realistic and exciting conflicts
  • Outlining vs. writing as you go
  • Powerful climaxes
  • Resolutions or non-resolutions

Module 7: Find Your Voice

  • Know your audience
  • Know your purpose
  • Choosing a point of view
  • What is your style?

Module 8: Developing Your Setting

  • Where?
  • When?
  • Using the setting to express depth
  • Story, characters, and themes for setting

Module 9: Unique Structures

  • Non-linear narratives
  • Unreliable narrators
  • Distinctive points of view
  • Writing for a social or geographical dialect

Module 10: Tricks To Avoid Writer's Block

  • Free-writing
  • Removing yourself
  • Reading
  • Change your scenery

Who is this course for?

A great screenwriter or playwright is an individual who:

  • Knows how to tell a good story
  • Gets inspired by the world around him/her
  • Has a creative and unique mind
  • Has an eye and an ear for human behaviour, and human motivation
  • Is in touch with his or her own feelings and emotions

Requirements

This Screen and Playwriting course is open to all, with no formal entry requirements.

Career path

After completing this course, you could:

  • Write that screenplay you've been wanting to create for years
  • Explore the exciting and challenging industry of TV and film
  • Express yourself creatively
  • Improve your writing
  • Help others to write screenplays

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