Do you have an interest in writing? Do you like letting your imagination fly & capturing it through your pen? Does the twists & turns of a movie plot excite you? Get to know the story behind the scene & explore your creativity like never before with NBT Rangmanch Club’s special workshop on Script & Screenplay Writing, for Movie and TV/Web series.

About the workshop: 3 hours interactive workshop by Mr Nalin Singh (Writer, Movie maker)

Syllabus-

Script Writing Storytelling: The audience is looking for a good story told well. Fiction films are basically about telling stories through visuals and sounds. Where do stories come from? Life as a source – memory, imagination, experience – yours & others. The nature and role of intuition. Universalizing the personal experience. Importance of research.

Adaptation from literary works. The difference between actually being inspired and stealing ideas.

Audiovisual Writing: Films are an audiovisual medium so a script is basically a description of the visuals and sounds that will be seen and heard in the film. What are the elements of visual story telling?

The discipline of writing a screenplay.  The Format: The format for writing the Synopsis, Step-outline, Screenplay and Script for a film.
Scenes written in the international format The Elements of Script writing: Action, Character, Setting, Theme, Structure. Practicals: One-page character sketches of a fictional character & a real person the student knows personally.

Characterization: How to create 3 dimensional characters. How to establish characters on screen. The Protagonist and the Antagonist. Dramatic Need of the protagonist & its relation to the plot. The way the character grows and changes during the film. Establishing characters on screen.

Assignment: A character sketch of one of the major characters of a film & an analysis of how the character has been established in the film.

Practicals: A detailed character sketch of one person who can be the protagonist of a film.

Structuring: Understanding the way screenplays of films are structured and learning how to use these elements in your own work: The 3-act structure.

Set-Up, Confrontation, Climax, Resolution.

What exactly people would learn from this workshop-
Story idea,script writing and screenplay writing, an idea of how the movie industry works.

Limited seats available, Hurry up!