Want To Be A Screenwriter? Film Connection Will Hook You Up With A Professional Screewriter To Be Your Private Mentor.

SCREENWRITING SCHOOL

The Film Connection Screen Writing School will teach you both the creative and the business sides of the screenwriting process.  You will train, one-on-one, under the direct supervision of your mentor, an active screenwriting professional, in private sessions while you work on creating, polishing and marketing your screenplay.

If accepted into our film program, you will be matched with a senior mentor who is a working professional screenwriter, located within 90 minutes of where you live.   The screenplay is the initial vision, the guiding light, the starting point of any film project.  Just as it is the directors job to transform the screenplay to the big screen, it is up to the screenwriter to capture the original concept and idea in words.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

If accepted into our Screenwriting Program you will learn how to be an abalone diver…(just kidding).  Naturally, you will learn Screenwriting! Just as the plays of Shakespeare were written in iambic pentameter, the screenplay has its own formatting rules and your Film Connection Screenwriting School mentor will guide you through them.   You will learn basic screenwriting structures from the three act play to the hero's journey to the plot point and sequence approaches. 

WHAT DOES A SCREENWRITER DO?

Screenwriters are the heart of a film.  Without a screen play, there is no film.  The screenwriter gives life to the characters and develops the plot in such a way as to capture the viewer's interest.  At the same time, the screenwriter must apply the required technical jargon to describe  the visual aspects of the story and effectively depict emotion through action and symbolism.  Screenwriters may be hired by a producer or director to develop an idea they have.   Many a screenwriter has chosen to write and market their own screenplays.  The Film Connection will take you through the 25 Words or Less approach as well as how to submit your screenplay to a Hollywood agent or manager for best consideration.

WHAT DOES THE SCREENWRITER NEED TO KNOW?

Obviously, to be a success as screenwriter, you need to know how to write.  You need to have an ear for dialogue, as much of what is written for the screen is the spoken word.  You need to understand how writing for the screen differs from writing for print.  (Have  you ever noticed how many great books make lousy movies because the screenwriter was unable to capture the book on the screen.)  You have to be able to guage how many screen minutes each scene you write will need.  You absolutely must know how to write under pressure--as last minute rewrites are the rule, not the exception. 

Are you ready to meet some of our mentors and read for yourself how our unique screen writing program works? Well, here's one for starters.

MENTOR TESTIMONIAL

If you want to learn how to write screenplays, don't go to regular college and take courses from an instructor that is not making his living in Hollywood.  Film Connection Screenwriting School will hook you up with a real screenwriter and you will learn the craft from someone like me (if not me), one-on-one in private sessions where all we do is work on your screenplay.  In just a few months, you will learn how to structure your writing, breath life into your characters, take your screenplay to market and where to look for money to fund your vision.