The essence of the Screenplay.
A screenplay is the visualisation of a story in the mind. It is the maximum expression of the imagination and its ability to fantasise. In reality, it is through the screenplay that the best conditions are created for the spectator to make his journey within that story, within that world.
A screenplay is the process of elaborating a cinematographic story, but this art goes far beyond. We can understand and admire its wonder only when we see a film in the cinema, and only then can we recognise and appreciate the immense role of the script. Without it neither cinema nor theatre can exist.
The screenplay has an enormous power to capture and bring us into the story, into the characters, thus being able to discover and experience that world “in person”.
A screenplay is a mosaic, made up of thousands of small fragments that are the result of great study and research. These, put together with intelligence, consistency and taste, ensure that it can be well balanced. A union is created, from which the mosaic of the screenplay emerges.
The screenwriter is a combination of a highly imaginative craftsman and a very skilled surgeon who calculates and considers each fragment.
Raman Turhan
Screenplay Course live online with the teacher:
The purpose of the Film School and this course is to show to everyone the art of how to write a screenplay that can touch, engage and inspire viewers and readers. First, however, you need to know how to use and manage your imagination, being able to create compelling stories and incredible scenarios, situations and worlds with numerously appropriate nuances and details. Furthermore, in order to create authentic and true characters, we must be able to observe and identify with the lives and stories of others.
The screenplay is different from all other forms of writing. It is much more complex and articulated, since it is necessary at all times, to take into account not only the quality of the story and the reader, but the many departments involved: direction, photography, actors, costumes, sound, editing. At the same time one must be willing to propose new and original ideas that can work concretely within the context.
Behind all the great films there is a great screenplay. Knowing this art, in depth, means learning the language of images. This is significant in developing and heightening your imagination, allowing you to see and transform images into a film or a show.
What are the fundamental points of the course:
To create good and functional ideas for writing a screenplay you need, initially, four elements:
- Unlike other artistic disciplines, especially in cinema, the best ideas are born and mature thanks to a good knowledge of the whole process, from A to Z. We will look the fundamental and principal points of how a film is born, develops and ends;
- It is essential to have a good understanding of how to write a screenplay; learning how to create quality content, while implementing and understanding the function of the technical aspect;
- Having a well-rounded, 360 degrees, sense of knowledge and culture to pull from, not just tied to cinema;
- Knowing how to listen to oneself, giving voice and expression to one’s own lived experiences. Then valuing them, as they contain information, feelings and emotions, having within themselves the mechanism and functioning of life.
Many other topics will be addressed, here are some: idea, subject, treatment, the 3 acts from Aristotle to Syd Field, narrative theories, the scene and its construction, creating characters, building dialogues, writing the script, general knowledge about making a film, etc.
Who is this course for?
Do you have a great idea in mind to create a film or a professional theatrical performance, but you don’t know how? Or simply at the amateur level, would you like to write small scripts for theatre or realise short films and you’re searching for new ideas and would like to improve your method of writing scripts? Or you are a beginner and would like to learn this magical art to be able to write original and authentic scripts?
If this is the case, then this course is certainly for you.
The Film School offers this Screenplay course live online with teacher, and is available for everyone, whether you have experience or not with screenplay or the artistic field in general. It is aimed at professional artists, as well as those with the passion who dedicate themselves to art and screenwriting during their free time, and also people simply curious to explore other worlds and discover more about art and also themselves.
What are the artistic benefits we will explore with this course?
- Writing a screenplay leads us to greatly improve our fantasy and imagination, but at the same time it helps us to realise what is positive in the mind;
- How to write in a genuine way by following your instinct, naturally and without limits;
- Go beyond what we see and hear, knowing how to break schemes and rules;
- Improve your attention and concentration;
- Improve your ability to fantasise and imagine;
- Rediscover and develop the five senses;
- Find the path that takes us to our deepest part;
- Learn the language called “authenticity”;
- Improve your artistic intuition;
- Write by images;
- Learn emotional writing;
- Make your stories original and unique;
- Understand how and when to reveal important information in a story;
- Learn when and in what ways to create surprise and suspense in a story;
- Improve and elevate your own sensibility and your own artistic potential;
- Learn to bring out your own interior richness and express it in an original and artistic way.
What are the personal and human benefits we will explore during this course:
- Transform and valorise our own life experience into something useful at an artistic level;
- Know and manage our thoughts and emotions allowing us to express ourselves in a screenplay or elsewhere;
- Know how to recognise and listen our most authentic selves, and by doing this valorising ideas and intuitions;
- Improve presence and awareness to be able to create richer and deeper stories with details and nuances;
- How to discover more about ourselves, to find and improve your hidden resources, valorising them artistically;
- Know how to let go and resolve conflicts, learning to recognise ugly moments and suffering as obstacles to creativity;
- Try to transform difficulties into opportunities, and succeed in finding the strength, the courage and the inspiration to continue to write and create.
