ONLINE SCRIPT WRITING COURSE

Creative Writing and Scriptwriting Online Workshop

The Script Writing Course is divided into two parts, the Story and the Screenplay.

STORY

 

Aim – The secret behind a good film is a well told story. All of us have many stories in our cupboard, but we don’t know how to tell them. In this section, we learn the art and the craft of writing a complete short story, which we will later transform into a script. So, you will be guided  towards writing a short story which is scriptable, meaning which can easily fit into the audio-visual format of a screenplay. 

 1 : Storytelling in Cinematic language.

 2 : Indian Cinema: Inspirations from the Navras and Mythology.

3 : Characterisations, the back bone of a good story.

 4 : Structuring the story based on the dramatic need.

(The classes will be referring to popular Indian films, like Sholay, Deewar, Dil Chahta hai, Pinjar, Satya, 3 idiots, Piku, Bajrangi Bhaijan, etc. So please watch most of these films if you have not seen them, before the course begins. )

 

SCREENPLAY

 

Aim: Apart from the following lectures, you will be expected to write a five to ten minutes script for which I will give you feedback. 

 5 : Format of the Screenplay. 

 6 : Scene Construction.

 7:  The art of writing Dialogues.

 8 : Narrative Structure of the Script.

You will be given links to free scriptwriting softwares, scripts to read up, and some films and scenes which I would like you to watch before and during the sessions.

You will be given plenty of homework, it should keep you busy for an hour or two per day, so please be prepared to work hard if you want to really benefit from the course.

FEE STRUCTURE 

The fees for this ( nine / ten  sessions of two hrs each) online workshops is Rs 12,500/- You can pay this online. I will send you my bank account details if you want to register for the course.

Faculty : Manjushree Abhinav

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Manjushree is an author and a film maker. An alumnus of the Film and TV Institute of India, she has taught scriptwriting and film making at FTII, NID, and Storygram.

You can watch her recent film, And Then The Mountain Called Her, here :https://vimeo.com/96907398.

And here you can watch short films made by her students at Storygram https://vimeo.com/96907398.

You can contact her at manjushree.abhinav@gmail.com, or call 0982574664 .

Online Writing Mentorship

Learn Creative Writing, Script Writing, Online!

I also mentor fiction writers.

This is my course flow. Usually, it takes two months of 3 hrs per week  to complete this syllabus, but we could condense it to two sessions of two hours a week and finish it in one month.

CREATIVE WRITING 

Since we are dealing with fiction here, we would first tap the biggest reservoir of stories : an unblocked storehouse of memories and emotions. We will also understand the structure of the conflict-resolution story, and we shall dip into the Navarasas. The aim of the workshop is to dig out the blocks that hamper the sprouting of the creative juices and fuel the love of writing towards an intense and natural discipline. It will help the beginner as well as the writer who is stuck in the middle of a story, a script, a film                                                                                                                                                  

SCRIPTWRITING                                                                                                                                         

The story we have structured in the creative writing workshop, we will stretch out into an audio visual        script. We will understand the elements of Scriptwriting: Characterization, Plot, Setting, Theme. We will then move on to finer aspects such as scene transitions and dialogues. Students will write short film scripts in the internationally accepted format of screenplay.                                                                       

CONTACT

Email - manjushree.abhinav@gmail.com. 

ABOUT ME 

I am a film maker and a novelist. I have studied from FTII, Pune. I have taught film making at NID, (Ahmedabad), FTII, Srishti (Bangalore) and Storygram. My films, my students' films, sample chapters from my book, book reviews, all these are available on www.storygram.in.

My style is intense, I evoke students to bring out personal stories, because they are the most authentic .