Screenwriting For Filmmakers

What you'll learn
How to write a screenplay that audiences will love when it becomes a movie.
How to overcome writer's block and keep moving forward.
How to have fun writing a screenplay that tells your story.
How and when to pace your screenplay action to keep your audience engaged.
Explanation of all the major film genres and what is required to satisfy audience expectations.
Detailed analysis of the main characters in the film to make your screenplay soar.
Step-by-step method for writing your screenplay from beginning to conclusion.
Requirements
No screenwriting software needed to take this course and write an amazing script. You will need a word processing program, such as OpenOffice or Word. I actually discourage using any of the screenwriting software.
Description
We are going to write THE script for the movie. The real script. The script that will become the movie, that everyone on the cast and crew will use to film the movie. We're not writing a speculative script.Speculative scripts are what I call wannabes. People write speculative scripts because they wannabe screenwriters. They want someone to recognize them and hire them to write other movies. They use a lot of colorful language to describe the scenery and they create an easy to read fantasy movie. But they have to be rewritten in order to actually be made into movies. We're skipping the wannabe movie and going straight to the real thing.This course was requested by many students on Udemy who enrolled in the Udemy course Filmmaking: Write, Direct and Distribute Your Feature Film.My forty years of experience writing and producing films taught me how to write movies people love. In this course I'm sharing what I've learned with you. I approach screenwriting with a lot of joy and excitement for adventure. This is a fun course. I walk you through the entire screenwriting process, from development to finished production script. This course also provides many tools to overcome writer's block. At the end of the course, if you do all the exercises, you will have a finished screenplay that you and your team will turn into a feature film.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Shopping
Section 2: Getting Started
Lecture 3 The Purpose of Your Screenplay
Lecture 4 Screenplay Synopsis
Lecture 5 First Stumbling Block
Lecture 6 Clear Your Mind
Lecture 7 Movie Title
Lecture 8 Target Audience
Lecture 9 Brain Download
Section 3: Genres
Lecture 10 Genres Overview
Lecture 11 Action Adventure
Lecture 12 Comedy
Lecture 13 Thriller
Lecture 14 Horror
Lecture 15 Drama
Lecture 16 Romantic Comedy
Lecture 17 Romance
Lecture 18 Musical
Lecture 19 Science Fiction and Fantasy
Lecture 20 Mystery
Lecture 21 Western
Lecture 22 Road Movie
Lecture 23 Novel Adaptation
Lecture 24 Fan Film
Lecture 25 Improvised Script
Lecture 26 Brain Download
Lecture 27 What If You Don't Know
Section 4: Research
Lecture 28 High Concept/Low Concept
Lecture 29 Research
Lecture 30 What to Tell Your Friends
Section 5: Main Characters
Lecture 31 Hero
Lecture 32 Consult the Planets
Lecture 33 Tell It Like It Is
Lecture 34 Your Hero's Best Friend
Lecture 35 Nemesis
Section 6: Plot and Structure
Lecture 36 The Plot
Lecture 37 Story Structures
Section 7: Script Formatting
Lecture 38 Screenplay Formatting
Lecture 39 Begin Your Screenplay
Section 8: Plot Details
Lecture 40 The Basics of Plot
Lecture 41 Movie as a Road Trip
Lecture 42 Reality
Lecture 43 Specifics on Plot Points
Lecture 44 First Crisis
Lecture 45 In Between Worlds
Section 9: Rescue Operations
Lecture 46 What If You're Stuck
Lecture 47 Ideas for Movie Trailer
Lecture 48 Make Life Easier
Section 10: Characters
Lecture 49 Movie Friends
Lecture 50 Archetypye Characters
Lecture 51 Tips
Section 11: Dialogue
Lecture 52 Dialogue
Lecture 53 Writer's Secret
Section 12: New Approach
Lecture 54 Start at the End
Lecture 55 House Cleaning
Lecture 56 Future Stories
Lecture 57 Scene Work
Section 13: Dialects and Silence
Lecture 58 Unique Dialogue
Lecture 59 No Dialogue
Lecture 60 Dialogue Exercise
Lecture 61 Cut
Section 14: The Whole Screenplay
Lecture 62 Opening Scene
Lecture 63 Time to Play Games
Lecture 64 Pages 10 thru 30
Lecture 65 Pages 30 thru 56
Lecture 66 Pages 56 thru 60
Lecture 67 Pages 60 thru 75
Lecture 68 Pages 75 thru 90
Lecture 69 Pages 90 to The End
Lecture 70 Write What Must Be Filmed
Lecture 71 Segues
Section 15: More Organization
Lecture 72 Scenes for the Movie Trailer
Lecture 73 Archive Older Script Versions
Section 16: Revisions
Lecture 74 Scene Descriptions
Lecture 75 Breaking Through Writer's Block
Lecture 76 Scene Enhancements
Lecture 77 Rewrite
Lecture 78 Formatting
Section 17: Launching Your Screenplay Into the World
Lecture 79 Audience Test
Lecture 80 Understanding Audience Opinion
Lecture 81 Copyright
Lecture 82 Selling Your Script
Lecture 83 Film Festivals and Competitions
Lecture 84 Producing Your Movie
Filmmakers who are writing their own scripts.,Beginners who want to make a movie and just need the right information to get it done.,Experienced film directors and actors who want to write a better screenplay for their next project.


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