FÁS Screen Training Ireland is seeking participants for a course in Scene Analysis with screenwriter Beth Serlin.
The course is open to Irish professionals involved in writing in the film industry (participants must be involved in current development projects). The aim of the course is to explore the precise craft of writing scenes for film. Through the medium of course work participants will apply their learning to their own scripts.
The course will focus on:
• fundamentals - what is a scene?
• the basic dramatic predicament
• scene form and structure, activity and action
• location and direction, intention and subtext, length, depth, transitions
• external, direct & overt conflict; internal, indirect & covert Conflict
• character introduction, objective vs. subjective action
• exposition, suspense, irony
• preparation/aftermath
• omission
• the sequence, fundamentals, form
• The Main Event, Tension, Oppositions
• the step outline, three act structure
• how sequences support acts, how scenes support sequences
Beth Serlin is currently working as a tutor in the Frank Daniel methodology at the Maurits Binger Instituut, North by Northwest and the Film First Foundation; she penned the script for ‘Beyond Silence’ which was nominated for a Best Foreigh Language film Academy Award in 1996.
Dates of the course: Sun 13th – Wed 16th March; Fri 18th – Sat 19th March 2005
Cost: €550
To apply send, fax or email you letter of application with a current CV to: Sorcha Loughnane at FÁS Screen Training Ireland . Ph: (01) 6070956 Fax: (01) 6070959
Email: sorcha.loughnane@fas.ie . Deadline for applications: 25th February 2005.
