$595.00
Six weeks
Six guided brainstorming assignments
Six live workshop sessions with individual feedback about your project
Finish with a completed script outline – a detailed roadmap to write your draft
That is Prep Workshop
Description
Start Date: November 11, 2024
Class Title: Prep: From Concept to Outline
Class Type: Online
Class Presenter: Tom Benedek
Class price: $595
OVERVIEW
Any professional writer knows how critically important the prep-writing phase is to the success of a script project. That’s where you ‘break’ the story enabling you to move into the page-writing part of your creative journey with confidence. In this popular 6-week online workshop, you take one of your stories from concept to outline and also learn an approach to story prep you can adopt and adapt on all future writing projects.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
A proven, professional approach to prep-writing: From a Protagonist Character Treatment to a Master Brainstorming List, Ten Major Plotline Points to Narrative Throughline.
COURSE DETAILS
- Six lectures to guide you through the prep-writing process
- 24/7 online forum discussions moderated by instructor
- Weekly writing assignments to develop and build your story
- Instructor and class feedback
- Due dates to motivate you to write and post assignments
- A weekly teleconference with instructor and class members
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE
Screenwriters, TV writers, novelists, and playwrights who want to develop their story to an outline enabling them to have the confidence to pound out a first draft.
What people say:
“Tom Benedek is a teacher, writer and coach who puts in the extra time and effort to make sure that every story he mentors serves a necessary purpose. His expertise with characters and stories is transcended by how he goes out of his way to make sure that scripts provide the emotional punch that reminds us why we became screenwriters in the first place.”
~ Max Lance, screenwriter – Winner 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting
“Tom – Thank you for running such an excellent workshop. I learned so much, and it was a really great environment for trying out new ideas and getting honest, supportive feedback.”
~ Erin O’Connor, screenwriter – Miss Virginia(2018) with Uzo Aduba(Orange is the New Black
“Tom has a very incisive understanding of all the ingredients that make a great screenplay. He’s also a first rate writer and a wonderful teacher.”
~ Producer Michael Shamberg – Erin Brockevich, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty
‘Tom is great to work with – – a wonderful screen and TV writer. He understands how series television is built on the page and knows how to talk about it with students and professionals.’
~ Josh Brand – TV Writer-Producer —The Americans, Northern Exposure, Amazing Stories
“Before taking your course I was frustrated trying to organize millions of details around a general idea. Your process was very easy to follow and it systematically aligned all those details into the elements essential for an organized story. ”
~ Karen Franz
“The Prep class has given me a set of practical tools to use to take the bare glimmer of a concept to outline in six weeks.”
~ James Tichenor
“I honestly can’t wait to get started on this script now, and to use what I’ve learned in Prep to go back and rewrite other scripts.”
~ Paul
BENEFITS OF THE ONLINE SCREENWRITING MASTER CLASS EXPERIENCE
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- Access courses 24/7 on your computer, tablet or smartphone.
- Supportive, lively online community from around the world.
- Feedback from experienced instructor who is a also a professional screenwriter
