How to turn a short story or novel into a screenplay with Steve Shrott

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Level
Mixed
Basic and Premium Members Prices
Basic Member Pricing: $30.00
Category
  1. Structure
  2. Genre
  3. Screenwriting
Have you written a short story or novel that would be amazing as a movie? That's great news because today up to fifty percent of films are adapted from other sources.

In this two week workshop, Steve Shrott will share strategies and techniques that will help you transform your story into a screenplay.

Topics covered include:
  • Should you adapt your story?
  • Important differences between short stories, novels and screenplays
  • Looking under the hood—what really drives your plot?
  • Discovering the basic beats of your story
  • Expanding your tale with material that keeps the reader turning pages.
  • Secrets of altering story and characters to fit the new format
  • Screenplay structure vs novel structure
  • Creating a pitch-able concept
  • Telling your story visually for the screen
  • Learning from the pros.
Class Format
Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.

The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.

Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.
Author
Stevens7_2000-yahoo.ie
Start date
Feb 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
End date
Mar 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Registration end date
Feb 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rating
4.94 star(s) 49 ratings

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