Features: Essential Beginnings

This course reveals the vital first step of understanding the craft of writing feature films, making it an ideal starting point for aspiring screenplay writers. In this workshop, you get a fundamental overview of storytelling, character development, plot and dialogue. Using examples, you also learn the building blocks of feature structure, as well as techniques to organize and convey your ideas to kickstart the writing process. By the end of the course, you will have a better understanding of feature writing and be fully prepared for the next course in the sequence, SCRIPT X 410.1- Feature Film I, where you learn how to outline your screenplay.