The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Screenwriting with Peter Almond
October 20, 2020 @ 7:00 pm
$150 |
Our second screenwriting workshop with film producer and writer Peter Almond
Starts 7pm EST. Class starts on October 20th and runs four consecutive Tuesdays.
Workshop is limited to eight – $150
To save your space email Eileen@Gloucesterwriters.org |
These 90-minute workshops will consider basic screenplay writing issues involving premise, structure, character and impact. Workshop participants can make themselves familiar with the basics of these issues in texts by Lajos Egri (The Art of Dramatic Writing) and Robert McKee (Story).
Workshop participants will be expected to bring a screenplay-related project to work on during the four week session. The project can involve any of the following: A series of character sketches, an outline, a treatment, a sequence of two or more consecutive scenes in a screenplay in progress.
During the first session each workshop member will discuss their proposed project and agree to a goal for the project during the four week workshop period. Almond also discusses the place of the screenplay in the context of film production, so that the screenplay is seen in relation to other film “departments” (costume, production design, cinematography, etc.) whose craft and artistic work interprets the screenplay to guide its work in the total production.
Film clips from produced films will be shown to illustrate key points in story and writing. In the first GWC screenwriting workshop, Almond showed clips from films such as “All About Eve,” “African Queen,” “Chinatown,” “Four Hundred Blows,” “Grand Illusion,” and others.
If available, please submit your screenwriting project plans in writing in advance to palmond094@gmail.com