Monday, April 22, 2013

Screenplay Workshop Is A Great Place

By Patty Summers


Taking a screenplay workshop will really help you hone your skills. It can be very rewarding to improve your skills. If you get your thoughts out, it is therapeutic. You could use your characters to do this, too. Writer and reader will improve with getting your own thoughts out and then making them into characters.

Learning the details of the written script is important. A general formula generally exists for how to get from beginning to end. This is not hard for those that are used to writing. If you know this formula, you can apply it to this formula. It is okay to go out of the formula, but not too much especially in the beginning unless you are really confident.

Make a list of topics that you would like to write about. There is so much out there that is interesting. Religion and politics which are usually taboo topics are interesting to put into a script as well as social issues like inequality. Poverty is a big issue and putting a protagonist in that position is not hard at all and can be quite rewarding to draw attention to these issues.

Going to a class or workshop can really help you improve in a short period of time. Usually they are about ten weeks in length and you go once a week. Share your work with others and hear their work, too. Feedback is really important to improvement. Enjoy the fellowship of this back-and-forth with other people.

Selling your work can be a challenge, but it is not impossible. With some perseverance and honing your skills, you may find that your written work gets into the right hands and you can make the sale. This could be a lot of money. It all depends on what they are looking for and what you want as well. Pitching your work will be essential and there are certain ways of doing that.

Going online to take a class is a good thing to do. It is convenient and fun. You can go online whenever you want to. Some classes start at a particular hour when everyone needs to be on there and some do not. If they do, be sure to be on time and if they do not, log in whenever you can and get busy with the work that is expected of you.

Synchronous learning requires all the students to be online at the same time. The teacher will be there taking role. This is like regular class in college or high school. Asynchronous will not require the same timing. This is for people who work various hours and do not have the flexibility to be there at the designated time. Decide which category you fit into and enroll accordingly.

You must motivate yourself. The glories of taking a screenplay workshop can be such where you have real people there cheering you on and helping you understand what to work on and what is good about your work. Decide for yourself which way you learn best and make plans accordingly. This could be quite a rewarding experience and one that you will not forget.




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