SCREENWRITING SCHOOL
The Film Connection Screen Writing School will teach you both the
creative and the business sides of the screenwriting process. You
will train, one-on-one, under the direct supervision of your mentor, an
active screenwriting
professional, in private sessions while you work on creating, polishing
and marketing your screenplay.
If accepted into our film program, you will be matched with a
senior mentor who is a working professional screenwriter, located
within 90 minutes of where you live. The screenplay is the
initial vision, the guiding light, the starting point of any film
project. Just as it is the directors job to transform the
screenplay to the big screen, it is up to the screenwriter to capture
the original concept and idea in words.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
If accepted into our Screenwriting Program you will learn
how to be
an abalone diver…(just kidding). Naturally, you will learn
Screenwriting! Just as the plays of Shakespeare were written in iambic
pentameter, the screenplay has its own formatting rules and your Film
Connection Screenwriting School mentor will guide you through
them. You will learn basic screenwriting structures from
the three act play to the hero's journey to the plot point and sequence
approaches.
WHAT DOES A SCREENWRITER DO?
Screenwriters are the heart of a film. Without a screen play,
there is no film. The screenwriter gives life to the characters
and develops the plot in such a way as to capture the viewer's
interest. At the same 
time, the screenwriter must apply the
required technical jargon to describe the visual aspects of the
story and effectively depict emotion through action and
symbolism. Screenwriters may be hired by a producer or director
to develop an idea they have. Many a screenwriter has
chosen to write and market their own screenplays. The Film
Connection will take you through the 25 Words or Less approach as well
as how to submit your screenplay to a Hollywood agent or manager for
best consideration.
WHAT DOES THE SCREENWRITER NEED TO KNOW?
Obviously, to be a success as screenwriter, you need to know how to
write. You need to have an ear for dialogue, as much of what is
written for the screen is the spoken word. You need to understand
how writing for the screen differs from writing for print.
(Have you ever noticed how many great books make lousy movies
because the screenwriter was unable to capture the book on the
screen.) You have to be able to guage how many screen minutes
each scene you write will need. You absolutely must know how to
write under pressure--as last minute rewrites are the rule, not the
exception.
Are you ready to meet some of our mentors and read for yourself how our unique screen writing program works? Well, here's one for starters.
MENTOR TESTIMONIAL
If you want to learn how to write screenplays, don't go to
regular college and take courses from an instructor that is not making
his living in Hollywood. Film Connection Screenwriting School
will hook you up with a real screenwriter and you will learn the craft
from someone like me (if not me), one-on-one in private sessions where
all we do is work on your screenplay. In just a few months, you
will learn how to structure your writing, breath life into your
characters, take your screenplay to market and where to look for money
to fund your vision.
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MENTOR TESTIMONIAL
The Film Connection film school concept is
brilliant! With Film Connection, you learn more, you do more and
you are better equipped to get a job in the film industry upon
graduation. Those other overpriced film schools just don't
work. You come out undertrained, unemployed and broke. Film
Connection Film School is the alternative that really works.