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

TIMING: Friday & Saturday, June 18 - 19, 2010
2 pm - 7 pm each day
 including  lunch breaks
& screening of two films
LOCATION:  Dubai Knowledge Village
FEE: AED 1,500 | online registration
 AED 2,000 | cash

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

 

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