Eight projects will be selected for the programme, which are approaching or have already reached the halfway point in their development. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, December 7th.
The course will run from March 5th-10th followed by writing time from May 11th-14th and feedback from tutors Beth Serlin and Mary Kate O'Flanagan.
Both live action and animation projects will be considered, with individual writers in receipt of third party support, and a writer or writers with an active producer or development executive are welcome to apply.
Applicants are required to provide an up-to-date CV, logline, one-page synopsis, script, letters of intention and the names of the team in order to be considered. Applications must be made through the Screen Training Ireland website and cost €350 per project.
Chrysalis will involve workshops on the craft of scriptwriting in tandem with intensive project development in a group setting. Successful participants will also have an opportunity to develop a new draft, on which they will receive individual feedback and guidance.
Programme aims:
- Develop established and up-and-coming writing talent
- Promote a development culture of creative collaboration
- Develop peer-to-peer mentoring relationships
- Provide participants with an understanding of audience, and the importance of identifying the audience for their project
- Develop eight original projects
Screenwriting workshops focus:
- Character development – polarity and arc
- The unity of opposites – how character roles shape a story
- The basic dramatic predicament
- Fundamentals – what is a scene?
- How character creates a scene
- Scene form and function
- Different types of tension: suspense, irony, mystery
- The sequence: fundamentals and form
- Sequences in sequence: building out feature structure
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