Screenwriting
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In the film industry “a picture is worth a thousand words”
Writers who cannot tell a story visually cannot expect to survive in modern independent cinema. They will also find it increasingly difficult to make progress in television. The days when the only skill a screenwriter needed was the ability to write good dialogue are over.
Cinema and television are the world’s most powerful storytelling mediums precisely because visual storytelling is so compelling. Every second of a film contains thousands of pieces of visual information, which the audience use to understand the story. When combined with audio (dialogue, music, sound effects), cinematic storytelling is totally absorbing and immersive.
This fact, that cinema works precisely because it is visual, presents a genuine challenge to every screenwriter. How can we write scripts that adequately tell the story (visually) without writing a thousand words for each moment? This is one of the greatest technical challenges facing modern screenwriters.

  Three act structure, inciting incidents, mid points etc.
  Sequencing breakdowns of popular feature films.
  How character flaws and wants inform choices and authentically dictate structure
  How a film establishes external, internal and philosophical stakes
  How these three stakes climax effectively in a third act
  Analysis of well known films which utilize these classical principals to great effect and are the reason we continue to re-watch them.