The Storyteller’s Toolkit – A practical workshop in successfully writing for film, digital media and stage.with Dr Alec Morgan, Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Society and Culture, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University.

Bookings here : https://events.humanitix.com/the-storyteller-s-toolkit

The course will teach you the basic elements of storytelling and provide you with practical skills to generate ideas and develop compelling stories for the screen. You will gain insight into the three key components that any script needs to succeed: a great concept, compelling characters and a strong structure. Through hands-on experience and short writing assignments, you will discover how to create characters that connect with audiences, how to write dialogue that brings them to life, and how to construct scenes and a structure that engages your audience from the opening titles to final credits.

The course will teach you about ideas that will work on-screen and how to find them. You will also learn the professional secrets of transforming a simple and rough outline into a vivid, exciting final draft. From the beginning of the course, you can bring your own ideas and work on them or you can begin to develop a concept for your script.

How You Will Benefit:

• This course will enhance your confidence to write compelling stories and share your ideas with audiences.
• Learn everything you need to write a fantastic script including structure, character creation, dialogue and scene construction.
• Discover the basic elements of compelling storytelling and how to apply them on the page to make your script stand out.
• Unlock the importance of professional formatting and presentation in raising productions finances and the marketing of your screenplay.

Dates:

The initial in-person workshop will be followed by six online workshops on Thursday evenings 6.30pm-8.30pm:

• 20 August
• 27 August
• 3 September
• 17 September
• 24 September
• 1 October

A Storyboarding Workshop will be held with Dr Morgan, in Merimbula, at the completion of ‘The Storyteller’s Toolkit’ workshop. Date to be advised.