Screenwriting for Writers Registration
In this class, writers will develop a project toward first draft or subsequent draft completion.
Date:(Dates being re-worked)
Class Time: 12:30pm – 3:00pm CDT
Sessions: 6
Location: Zoom (online)
Instructor: Ted Schneider
Price: $350 (with discounted rates for SLF members)
In this class, writers will develop a project toward first draft or subsequent draft completion. Peer and Instructor feedback will augment their own evaluation of their work. Projects may rotate from week to week to give enough time for in-session reading and discussion. In addition to script pages, writers will create a logline and short outline that clarifies the story of their script and aids in evaluation and rewrites.
NOTE: Writers may elect to develop a full length screenplay, short film screenplay or television pilot.
TOOLS
Tools to focus work and ensure choices develop their story toward a compelling climax.
1. Logline
2. Outline
3. Script Pages (scenes and sequences)
4. Research
5. Peer and Instructor Feedback
Some other language that may be used to look at scripts from a shared lens: Protagonist, Forces of Antagonism, Reversal, Climax, Theme, Structure, Reverse-Engineering
In addition to readings and discussions, students will look at professional, produced screenplays, loglines and outlines, where applicable, and discuss and workshop formatting options.
OUTCOMES
Writers will complete a short logline and outline and write a screenplay or teleplay or series of scenes and sequences for a feature length, episodic or limited series project or short-form screenplay.
Ted Schneider is a director, writer, actor, consultant and teacher. His fillm “Early Light” won the Soldier’s and Sacrifice Award at the 2020 Flicker’s Rhode Island International Film Festival. His first short, “Nothing Happened,” won awards at Trenton International Film Festival March on Washington Film Festival, White House Screening. His current film, “Iqaluit,” is screening in festivals such as the 30th Annual Arizona International Film Festival (2022) Flicker’s Rhode Island International Film Festival (2022) Boston Short Film Festival (2022) Detroit Trinity International Film Festival (2022). Upcoming: “Tell Me Something Else” Short Film (post-production). Earlier this year, Ted became the story editor for an untitled feature film project from East2West Entertainment.
As an actor, Ted has appeared alongside F. Murray Abraham, Amy Irving, Lynn Cohen, Bill Irwin, Michael Shannon, Reed Birney and Dierde O’Connell: Shakespeare, Chekhov and new works by Clare Barron, Naiomi Wallace and Lanford Wilson. He is a member of the theater and film group The Chekhov Project at Lake Lucille and holds a BFA in Theater Arts (Acting) from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MFA in Cinema Arts (Directing) from the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College.
