SCREENWRITING – INTRODUCTION
MKCW – ‘Creative Writing: Wonder World’ Course Outline
Thanks for enrolling in the course. I hope you enjoy it and find it very rewarding. Please see the outline below. If you have any further queries relating to the course, please email info@martinkeaveney.com.
Week 1
Introduction to Visual Writing
Week 2
Character
Week 3
Story
Week 4
Screenwriting
Week 5
Adaptations
Week 6
Rewrites
Week 7
Treatments
Week 8
Formatting
Week 9
Productions & Funding
Week 10
Pitching
Week 11
Submission
Week 12
Special Focus
Participants have the option to submit weekly writing for feedback and read their material during weekly workshop. A Final Project option is available to all at the end of the course.
Reading list
Readings are optional but they are helpful for weekly discussion. It is not necessary to purchase any of these titles as excerpts will be provided in advance.
Horton, Andrew et al. Screenwriting. Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Ballon, Rachel. Blueprint for Screenwriting : A Complete Writer’s Guide to Story Structure and Character Development. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.
Docter, Pete, Inside Out. Disney/Pixar, 2015.
Lucas, George. Star Wars. Fox, 1977. (Boxtree, 1995).
Pinter, Harold, The Caretaker. Arts Theatre, 1960. (Faber, 1991)
Others TBA.
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