Screen and Playwriting
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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.
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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
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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
Questions and answers
What happens If for any reason you are unable to complete the course within the 60 days ?
Answer:Our Screen and Playwriting course offer includes lifetime access to the course content, so there are no time frames to complete the course.
This was helpful.Why so cheap for the screenwriting course please?
Answer:The course is offered at a promotional price that's why it's lower than the original price. The courses are fully online. You will have access to your Virtual Campus account any time, day or night so you will be able to complete the course at your own pace over the generous time of 60 consecutive days. Once you register, you will have 12 months to activate your course. All course materials are available online and there are no additional costs involved in completing the course.
This was helpful.My 15 year old daughter would like to be a writer, would this course be a good starting off point, also would she need her own Reed account.
Answer:Hi Ben, thank you for your query. Our courses are created for beginners in the subject, so students do not need any previous knowledge. The courses take them through all the basics for a great foundation in each subject. You can set up the account under your daughter's name so the documents purchased can be issued with her name. If you have nay further questions, please get in touch with our support team. Kind regards, The IOA Team
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