Story

This course will focus on  finding emotional truth in your story. Grounding your universe in a real sense, psychologically and emotionally, so the audiences connect and empathise with the  journey. This comes down to writing what you know: this is often a very misunderstood saying. Writing what you know simply means to understand the emotional make up of the world of your film and the characters in it. You do not need to have been a cowboy to write a western but simply undertsand the world of the cowboy and how they feel.​

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Characters and Dialogue​

Writers will learn to develop their characters in this universe, to make their dialogue sing and feel real. ​Real dialogue writing is important as most of us can reach for the cliche too quick. Undertsanding who your characters are and why they feel how they do will allow you to create a compelling voice for each character in your script.

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​Structure

Writers will learn how to develop their ideas into compelling narratives and structure. Structure is an important part of storytelling, although not as rigid as some people would have you believe. There is a natural wave of storytelling and we will look at this on the course and how pliable you can make it.

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Theme

We will explore primal themes that grab an audience into the story and doesn't let them go. Often writers dismiss this, but understanding why you want to write a particular story, where that psychological drive comes from, can help you undertsand the story you're trying to tell and what that theme is and means.