How to Write a Great Suspense-Mystery for OTT & Digital Movies

Duration: Nov 26th to Dec 11th 2022 (Over 3 Weekends)

12-Hours plus | 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM IST

How to Write a Great Suspense-Mystery for OTT & Digital Movies is a practically guided Workshop from Inspiration to Finished Screenplay... of course, with your continued writing and rewriting!

TAKEAWAY:

• Hands on experience on devising, developing, arranging, writing, rewriting, and refining a mystery screenplay.

• Learn ‘how-to’ write a decent suspense-mystery step-by-step, starting with building appealing, lifelike, actively dramatic characters, that generate a complicated yet convincing plot full of mystery, danger, unpredictability, and intense conflict.

Week – 01: Day-01

• Why We Read Mysteries
• What Mystery Writers Should Know
• The Good/Bad/Ugly – Ideas
• The Plot Behind the Plot
• Crafting a Murderer
• Exercises

Week – 01: Day-02

• How to Go Close to a Murderer
• The Hero/Investigator
• Inventing Your Best Hero
• The Other Characters: Some Fictional, Some Not
• Interesting Devices for Mystery Writers
• Exercises

Week – 02: Day-01

• Plotting, Step-sheets, Flowcharts
• The Four Strong Points of Mystery
• Designing the Plot
• Plotting Theory
• Exercises

Week – 02: Day-02

• The Hero Gets to Work
• How the Hero Figures It All Out
• Bringing a Gripping Climax
• Things to Wrap Up
• The Murderer in the Bag
• Writing Effective Prose

Week – 03: Day-01

• Art of Writing the Suspense/Mystery Scene
• Creating a Sense of Place
• Clues and Misdirection
• Suspense, Action, Reflection
• Layering Backstory
• Exercises

Week – 03: Day-02

• Viewpoints and Voices of Suspense/Mystery
• Revisions and Checklist:
• The Premise, The Sleuth, The Crime
• The Victim’s Secrets, The Villain
• Innocent Suspects
• A Blueprint for Suspense/Mystery