Core Connections Within Plots & Scenes

Many screenwriters struggle to decipher the nuanced power of thematic storytelling. In this course you learn a series of techniques to elegantly interweave a theme inside carefully crafted, rhythmic story-structure. Your clearly expressed theme can act as a unifying principle, enlivening and linking all of the central, dramatic tension in your story. Executed well, these practices help ensure that the narratives you’re passionate to write land reliably, with powerfully visceral impact, all while providing an entertaining experience for your audience. Additionally, you analyze the structure — and resonant thematics — of produced short films, a feature, a limited TV series and multiple television episodes. By the end of the course, you develop and draft a screenplay for an original short, using the tools practiced over ten weeks.