Creating Powerful Scenes and Sequences
Creating Powerful Scenes and Sequences
Focus on your script writing at the scene level to enhance conflict, subtext, characterization, dialogue, and imagery and strengthen your project.
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About This Course
The writing of powerfully constructed scenes featuring compelling characters is the key to any screenplay or dramatic teleplay's success. This intensive workshop gets you writing and rewriting your own scenes, and arms you with a specific skill set that enables you to improve and elevate your work. Drawing on great scenes and sequences from memorable movies and cable shows throughout the course, you learn to identify the essential building blocks for the creation of dynamic scenes; work with conflict, subtext, characterization, dialogue, and imagery, get feedback that will up your game; and make significant headway in creating an eminently marketable screenplay or pilot.
Fall 2026 Schedule
Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.
This course meets in person at the designated class meeting time and location. Students must be present at the course meeting time as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation. Please inform your instructor if you will miss a class meeting. You are responsible for any class information you missed. We suggest you arrange with a fellow classmate to share their notes when feasible.
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center 209