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Students will learn the need for self-awareness as an actor, and understand that acting is a journey of evolving and improving your craft.

Students will learn the basic building blocks of story - structure, character, dialog, and industry-standard formatting. They will use these tools to develop an original idea for a feature film into a detailed Beat Sheet. The program focuses primarily on the basic tools all writers need to develop their stories. It provides a fundamental knowhow relevant to anyone who wants to write cinematically for the screen. Students will complete the program with written practice scenes and a detailed Beat Sheet for a feature film.

Screenplay Formatting and Software This class will introduce students to industry standard formatting for a feature film screenplay, including correctly formatted scene headings, action and description, character and dialogue.

Structure Students will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of narrative structure, screenplay, and plotting. It also teaches specific skills like elements of a scene, turning points, identifying theme and completing a beat sheet for a feature film screenplay. Character Students will learn the fundamental skills of building dynamic, engaging and multi-dimensional characters for cinematic stories.

The focus will be on identifying what qualities define powerful characters and how they engage with each other and the elements of the story. Writing Scenes Through practical in-class exercises, students will learn how to craft and rewrite a scene, refining dialogue, character, and scene description to generate a compelling and engaging experience that can be translated to the screen.

Dialogue and Subtext Through practical in-class exercises and examples, students will learn how to craft authentic and engaging dialogue exchanges between characters. Areas of focus include character motivation and goals, conflict and subtext. Courses include: Producer's Craft students learn the elements of production management, including identifying and developing material for the screen, financing, budgeting and scheduling , Pitching an essential producing skill , Film Festival Strategies, as well as an introduction to the various crafts of filmmaking including: Screenwriting, Directing and other key creative roles.

Graduates of the program will gain practical and pragmatic skills, tools, and knowledge, enabling them to develop and hone necessary skills for a career in the film and television industry. Story and Screenwriting Producers play a key role in the development of scripts. Students will gain firsthand knowledge of basic, fundamental screenwriting elements such as: structure, conflict and character.

They will gain insight into working with writers, story analysis, and overall management of the development process. The Art of Pitching An essential producing skill, students learn the appropriate pitching techniques for a variety of meetings and settings.

Each student will practice and gain critical and fundamental pitching skills, including writing effective loglines, identifying the audience, and perfecting the pitch. Scheduling and Budgeting Students learn about the physical aspects of production: scheduling and budgeting, crew descriptions, paperwork and reporting mechanisms permits, call sheets, production reports , pay rates, working with unions, insurance guidelines, and more.

Film Craft Producers must have a fundamental understanding of the various crafts involved in the filmmaking process. This class will provide students with a brief overview of the key creative roles involved in production and post-production, including Cinematographer, Production Designer, Composer, Sound Recordist, Editor and Sound Designer. Film Festivals are expanding as the technology explodes in the digital universe.

Topics include festival selection, social media campaigns, case study of a specific film to examine the process of working the festival circuit, and achieving potential distribution deals.

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