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August

ScreenLab: Dazzling Dialogue
Saturday 16th August
10.30am-5.30pm
Tutor: Charles Harris

Screenwriters all too often allow their dialogue let them down. In this workshop we will help you strengthen your dialogue and find your individual voice, showing clips and script extracts from the best screenwriters, using exercises to liberate your writing skills and giving feedback on your work.

September

The Absolute Beginner's Guide to How to write a Screenplay
Sunday 14th September
10.30am to 4.30pm
Tutor: Fenella Greenfield

If you’ve ever dreamt of writing a feature-film script or wondered how a screenplay is written then come along and have some fun on this one-day workshop and meet some other aspiring writers in the process.

ScreenLab: Premise & Pitching
Saturday 27th September
10.30am to 5.30pm
Tutor: Charles Harris

Learn to strengthen the premise of your scripts and to pitch your ideas with confidence and authority. In this popular one-day workshop we will work with you to help you make the premise for your cinema or TV story as strong as it can possibly be.  

The Comedy Writing Weekend in London
Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th September
Tutors: Paul Bassett Davies and Fenella Greenfield

Lectures about writing are like poems about swimming: they may be inspiring but they don't improve your technique.  

The only way to learn how to write is by writing. 

In this weekend workshop you'll participate in intensive, practical exercises that are designed to develop the basic skills you need to make your material funny in any format or medium you're writing for: film, television, radio, theatre, stand-up, or print.

October

Writing for Radio
Saturday 4th October
10.30am to 5pm
Tutor: Paul Bassett Davies

This course covers nearly every aspect of writing for radio: comedy gags, sketches and shows; radio sitcoms and series;  short drama; full-length drama; radio ads - and beyond, to explore all the possibilities of work in the medium.

ScreenLab: Exciting Treatments
Saturday 25th October
10.30am to 5.30pm
Tutor: Charles Harris

Your story treatments are vitally important both for developing and for marketing your scripts, and yet the treatment is where most writers go wrong. This workshop will teach you to write a strong and involving film, TV one-off or series treatment, using clips, analysis, sample treatments and thought-provoking exercises.

November

Write a ten-minute Short
Saturday 1st November
10.30am to 4.30pm
Tutor: Fenella Greenfield

Embarking on a 120pp feature-length script can be daunting for any screenwriter so why not take some time out and write a short?  Not only is it more likely you’ll get the script finished;  you’ll also stand a greater chance of getting it made and seen.

This one-day course focuses on narrative storytelling, not experimental film-making.  Intensively hands-on, by the end of the day you’ll have completed a rough first draft of a ten-minute script.  And you’ll have improved your basic scriptwriting skills in order to give you greater confidence when writing longer lengths.