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Taught by writer-director Robert Tutak  MFA Director, Associate Professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

LOCATION:  TECOM Learning Centre
BLOCK 18, Ground Level
Dubai Knowledge Village
TIMING: Friday & Saturday
January 9 & 10, 2009
12 noon - 6 pm (including screenings)
FEE: AED 1,500

The art & the craft of screenwriting

HOLLYWOOD PARADIGM - 
a three-act story structure		 ACT I (Set-up): first 10 min., Inciting Incident, Plot Point I
ACT II (Confrontation): Pinch I, Midpoint, Pinch II, Plot Point II 
ACT III (Resolution): Crisis, Climax, Obligatory Scene, last scene (slow curtain) 

Action-driven vs. character-driven story
TEXT ANALYSIS Conflict [types of conflict]
Text & subtext
Beats
Dramatic arc
Shift of power
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT Conscious goal vs. unconscious desire
Character flaw
Back-story / character flaw / story plot causal connection
 Given circumstances & character's emotional charge
Functions of dialogue & speech patterns
 Script formatting

the workshop is subject to sufficient enrollment

 

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