Introduction to Screenwriting: there are no shortcuts

Outline: Day long workshop with Kath Akuhata-Brown – Whangarei

The road most travelled

-   Treatments / Novellas
Whatever you call it write one

-    Outlines
Pulling out the key events and putting scenes around them

-    Sequences
Asking the key questions

-    Writing the script
The other pathways

-    The Process of Thinking
Walking around with the idea in your head

-    The Big Bang
The idea comes to you, sitting down to write it

-    Going straight to script
Writing from instinct

What you’ll always need irrespective of pathway
-    Character Development
-    Themes and premise
-    Character perspective
-    The big questions
-    Your independent voice

Finish

Whangarei: 9.30-4.30, friday June 4, The Script Lounge Studio, The Quarry Arts Centre, 21 Selwyn Ave, Whangarei, all welcome, entry by koha. To register contact Karen Sydney at thescriptlounge@gmail.com or phone 027 2775202

General inquiries to Simon Marler, Executive Director, Script to Screen simon@script-to-screen.co.nz or 021 2530972