FREE Sample Class – Sunday, March 4

Don’t miss your chance to check out The Screenplay Workshop’s acclaimed methods — for free!

Led by screenwriter and story consultant (and TSW’s Director) Jill Chamberlain, this short seminar is jam-packed with information including the groundbreaking “Nutshell technique,” a method to get to the guts of your story and insure it WORKS. You’ll never watch a movie the same way again! You can read more about The Screenplay Workshop’s unique methods here.

The workshop will be on Sunday, March 4 from 3-5 pm. TO REGISTER: reply to this email (or email free@thescreenplayworkshop.org) with your first & last name and your phone number (your information will not be shared or distributed). Address and directions to the Central Austin location will be emailed with your class confirmation. Class size is limited; RSVP ASAP!

New Workshops – start March 20

Spring workshops start in three weeks! Be sure to register ASAP for the best selection and to ensure your choice is not filled or cancelled. Plus if you register by the early registration deadline of Monday, March 5, you can save $15 to $25 off of regular tuition!

Here’s what we’re offering:

SCREENWRITING FUNDAMENTALS
Learn in 5 weeks everything you must know to write a screenplay.
Tuesdays 7-9:30 pm, March 20-April 17
See syllabus
Tuition: $225
Pay by March 5: $210

MASTER CLASS
Write a feature-length script or script outline in 10 weeks.
Tuesdays 7-9:30 pm, March 20-May 22
See syllabus
Tuition: $395
Pay by March 5: $370

FLAT RATE SCRIPT CONSULTATION
Your script read, marked-up & analysized, & then reviewed with you in a 90 minute consultation.
$300

PRIVATE SCRIPT CONSULTATION & INSTRUCTION
is also available at very reasonable prices. See more on our website.

TO REGISTER
Just hit “Reply” and e-mail back to us which workshop or consultation package you are interested in, and we’ll get you enrolled right away!

Announcements

The Screenplay Workshop will start offering online video classes in 2012! For awhile now, we’re been using Skype video calls for private consultations (we have clients across the U.S. and in Canada). It’s been working great for that; it really feels like we’re all in the same room. So later this spring, we’re going to offer a pilot class that will be transmitted via Skype group video calling. If you are interest in registering for our online video classes, please let us know by sending us an email at: online@thescreenplayworkshop.org.

The Screenplay Workshop is seeking interns with web, graphics, marketing/writing or Windows-troubleshooting skills. Interns can receive tuition remission for their efforts. Contact: interns@thescreenplayworkshop.org.

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Screenwriting Tip

The Artist winning the Best Picture Oscar serves as an important reminder that great screenwriting is more than great dialogue. Great screenwriting allows us to see the film on its pages. The more dynamic and active your scene and action description, the more your story is going to come alive for the reader. Script Frenzy, the screenwriting sister program to National Novel Writing Month, asked me for some tips for how to write more dynamic scene and action description. Here are the four tips I gave them:

1. Lose the adjectives and adverbs
2. Limit your use of the word “is”
3. Avoid “blocky” description of action
4. Keep description proportionate in length to its payoff

For more on these and an explanation for why these tips work, see my original article here at Script Frenzy’s website.

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