WEAVING STORY FROM A BLANK MIND - Workshop

Duration: 5th November to 19th November (Over 3 Weekends)

12-Hours plus | 4 to 6 PM IST

Week – 01: Day-01

• Blank Mind to Theme to Premise
• Writing from the Heart
• Story World
• Character’s World
• Contrast and Irony
• World and Exposition
• Research and Consistency
• Exercises

Week – 01: Day-02

• Character vs Story
• Character’s Activity and Action
• Character Types and Functions
• Character and Context
• Character Elements
• Character Arc
• Character Arc vs. Catalytic
• Building Characters
• Exercises

Week – 02: Day-01

• Approaches to Structure
• Aristotle and Poetics
• Elements of Structure
• Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
• The Art of Dramatic Writing
• The Hero’s Journey
• The Three-Act Structure
• Innovative Structure
• Exercises

Week – 02: Day-02

• Power and Conflict
• The Orchestration of Power and Conflict
• Types of Story Conflict
• The Beat and Making a Scene
• Sequences and Subplot Sequences
• Step Outlines and Beat-Sheets
• Exercises

Week – 03: Day-01

• Narrative
• The Role of Dialogue and Techniques
• Exposition
• Technical Do’s and Don’ts of Dialogue
• The First Draft
• Rewriting and Revisions
• Formats of Screenplays
• Exercises

Week – 03: Day-02

• The Beginning of a screenplay
• The Climax of a screenplay
• Copyrights and Pitching Overview
• Evaluation and Wind-up