Tuesdays September 16 to October 28
(with break on October 14)
6.15 to 9.30pm
Tutors: Charles Harris and Ian Long

Few people can read a script well and yet the skill is a crucial one - whether to improve your own material or to find work as a script reader in film or TV. 

In this brand new six-session course you will learn the essentials of a good, marketable treatment and script, from an experienced writer-director and script consultant. You will work with real treatments and scripts to strengthen your reading and analytical skills. You will practise delivering professional reports and refine your ability to give constructive feedback for further development.
 

Evaluating the Underlying Concept
Understanding the TV and film marketplace
Cinema Treatments
TV Treatments and Series Proposals
Cinema Scripts
Structure and Character
Style, Voice and Individuality
Genre
Niche markets

Charles Harris is an experienced award-winning writer-director for cinema and TV who has worked with top names in the industry from James Stewart to Spike Milligan, Ricky Tomlinson and Alexei Sayle. As script consultant, he has helped professional writers from Britain, Europe and USA, sat on BAFTA awards juries and lectured on MA courses at London University and London Film School. Also catch him each month in the Sky Indies Director's Chair

Ian Long is a freelance script consultant and screenwriter who works for the UK Film Council’s Premiere and New Cinema Funds, the Script Factory, Skillset and numerous independent companies. Having started his career as an illustrator, he continues to accept design commissions and recently set up an independent company to produce a short film, Behind the Bar, from one of his own screenplays. As well as developing a range of drama projects for BBC Radio, he is currently acting as a consultant on a horror feature to be shot on location in Italy and writing a large-scale post-apocalyptic thriller.