MFA-Dubai Screenwriting Workshop

Taught by writer-director Robert Tutak MFA Director, Professor of Film at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

TIMING:

Friday & Saturday, January 20 & 21, 2012
2 pm - 6 pm each day
including screening of two films

Recommended screenings:

JAWS dir. Steven Spielberg
THE FUGITIVE dir. Andrew Davis
THELMA & LOUISE dir. Ridley Scott
THE GRADUATE dir. Mike NIchols

LOCATION:

DUBAI KNOWLEDGE VILLAGE

FEE:

AED 1,500 | online registration
AED 2,000 | at the door (cash only)

The art & the craft of screenwriting

HOLLYWOOD PARADIGM - a three-act story structure	ACT I (Set-up): first 10 min., Inciting Incident, Plot Point I ACT II (Confrontation): Pinch I, Midpoint, Pinch II, Plot Point II ACT III (Resolution): Crisis, Climax, Obligatory Scene, last scene (slow curtain)
	Action-driven vs. character-driven story
TEXT ANALYSIS	Conflict [types of conflict] Text & subtext Beats Dramatic arc Shift of power
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT	Conscious goal vs. unconscious desire Character flaw Back-story / character flaw / story plot causal connection Given circumstances & character's emotional charge
	Functions of dialogue & speech patterns Script formatting
the workshop is subject to sufficient enrollment