Script Writing Fundamentals - An Online Dramatic Writing Workshop

Here's a bunch of FAQs about the workshop. (You can tell how long I've been writing, by the fact that you are seeing this on Blogspot!!!)

What is this workshop about?

This workshop covers script writing fundamentals for anyone who wants to create a dramatic text - a stage play, a film script, a radio play, or a web series. Through the sessions we will cover foundational ideas like how to craft plot, character and dialogue.

We will also work with myth, dreams and archetypes through the Hero’s Journey – a very popular industry format with screenwriters. A dramatic text can also be informed by painting and music, and we will gain insights from these forms of expression to enhance our ability to craft drama.

Research skills will round off the basics. We will learn how to complement our imagination and personal experience by sourcing real-world material to inspire our art. Fact is often stranger than fiction! With a bit of training, we can make that work for us.

Who can attend?

The script writing fundamentals workshop is meant for writers working in any dramatic medium, primarily theatre, film, radio or digital. Some of the methods can also benefit those working in narrative fiction looking to fine tune an ear for dialogue or refine their plotting. Right from stand-up comics looking to generate material, through to screenwriters pitching for a web series, there will be something for everyone who wants to write a script.

What are the sessions like?

The workshop is made up of three units

• Workshop intensive 
• Interactive sessions
• Script Mentoring

The workshop intensive is made up of 6 sessions of exercises, with sharing of tools and methods.

There will be 3 interactive sessions with practitioners from the field.

A month-long mentoring session follows, where you can receive professional feedback on a script that you are working on, rewriting or have created as an outcome of the workshop.

All sessions will take place over Zoom. Each session will be 2 hours long.

When are the sessions?

We will work on weekends (Sat & Sun) in July from 6pm – 8pm starting 11^th and 12^th of July.

Interactive Sessions will be scheduled through August. Mentoring will be scheduled individually.

There will be a final online reading of our work in September.

What will you charge?

The workshop fee is INR 9000/- all inclusive. This covers nine sessions and the individual mentoring on a script of your choice.

If you would only like to attend the sessions, without the mentoring then the fee is INR 7000/-

Student discounts and concessions are available on request.

What exactly will we learn?

Here’s a brief overview of some of the things we will cover.

Plotting – the classic approach to revelation and the reversal

Character – getting a grip on wants and obstacles

Dialogue – the psychological approach

Dialogue – the speech genre

Hero’s Journey – working with myth, dreams and archetypes

Time, Space and Setting – Engaging multiple art forms for insights

Research skills for writers – methods and tools

How do I sign up?

Sign up using the Instamojo link  https://imjo.in/3FtNek

Or get in touch at ramganeshk@gmail.com