Being a Screenwriter 2:
Writing Your Screenplay
Being a Screenwriter 2:Writing Your Script picks up the action where the Being a Screenwriter: Generating Ideas for a Screenplay left off and teaches students how to translate their ideas into a authentic script through this 10-lesson interactive course!
With log lines, pitches and treatments already in hand, learners jump right in to the work of turning their initial sketches into fully conceptualized and workable screen instructions. Step-by-step, they master the tricks of the trade, compiling ideas, shaping dialogues, creating fascinating personae, and investigating how conflict drives a story into production territory. Take a quick look at the course outline to see our approach to this topic.
Is the thought of a screenwriting career putting stars in the eyes of your students?
The explosion of television channels, internet bandwidth, YouTube webisodes, video projects, electronic gaming, commercials, and films from Hollywood to Bollywood promise expanding opportunities for the screenwriters of the future. The next generation of Oscar winners get their screenwriting feet wet in this essential continuation of Being a Screenwriter-Generating Ideas for a Screenplay.
Being a Screenwriter 2 helps students build their fledgling ideas into filmable scripts by leading them through activities that allow students to:
• Build competence in storytelling.
• Explore script formatting.
• Investigate character.
• Develop storyboards.
• Work collaboratively.
Participate in “table readings” of their own scripts The critical thinking skills essential to successful communication get a workout in real-life screenwriting tasks. Learners’ activities focus on extending ideas, leveraging creativity, encouraging conceptual development, and putting writing into a context of fun and imagination. Students use reflective journaling techniques to “freewrite,” practice dialogue, storyboard and sketch scenes, and to practice criticism and evaluation of their own work and the work of their peers. The journals are provided in the Screenwriter 2 Course Kit.
Yet Being A Screenwriter 2 is far from just a personal opportunity for accomplishment. It is also a highly collaborative course, encouraging students to share their work and development with their peers.
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More about Being a Screenwriter 2:
Working from clips of an actual movie, (a DVD is included in our CourseKit), Being a Screenwriter 2 also provides young writers with real-world examples of the concepts they are trying to master. Young writers come to grips with the notion of a screenplay as a plan, and learn to recognize the skills and attitudes of negotiating, flexibility and adaptation as fundamental to writing success.
Practical activities drive students through the nuts-n-bolts of screenwriting. Scene outlining; coding the script for sluglines, action and dialogue; handling transitions, and other screenwriting elements are covered in exercises that help students conquer the blank page and tap into an "outside the box" stream of creativity.
Inside every lesson, instructors find support in the form of clear "Notes for the students" and "Notes for the instructor," vocabulary lists, and supplemental resources. All of the Being a Screenwriter II materials come conveniently packed in our CourseKit.
Whether students visualize inspired plotlines for live-action shorts or feature-length animated films, this screenwriting primer is the right tool for the task. Most importantly, key literacy components, such as discussion, text, conversation, questions, evaluation, vocabulary and analysis—a part of virtually every lesson—reinforce the critical thinking and standards-based benchmarks identified by national standards for achievement in English Language Arts.
Student projects take shape in this highly engaging, positive, skills-building course.
Like all Community Learning products, Being a Screenwriter II taps into student capacity for learning, offers crucial professional support to instructors, and enriches out-of-school experiences with rewarding, educational fun! |
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