#screenwriting class

[leeuwchen]

I will be 40 years old this summer and I still forget my homework

[filmcourage]

(Watch the video interview on Youtube here)

What Do You Learn The First Week Of An MFA Screenwriting Class? by Marty Lang via FilmCourage.com.

Film Courage: We’d like to hear about your first day or week in the MFA screenwriting program. What topics were initially taught? Was everything an introduction to the courses?

Marty Lang, Screenwriter/Director and Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Central Arkansas/Director: It was a little bit of both. The first semester we had three classes. We had an Introduction into Screenplay Analysis and that was with Professor Edson [Eric Edson of California State University Northridge]. That was the beginning of his explanation of screenplay structure. We didn’t actually write in that class but that first class was sort of like a top level introduction to the terms he would be using, kind of a general overview of what the structure paradigm is and then sort of an assignment where we had to watch a film and then break down the first act of that film of what happens in every single scene...(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

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[theladywonder]

I’m super stressed out because I have to write a short screenplay and I have ZERO ideas. 

Heeeeelp....

[imyourdestinymotherfucker]

I'm gonna write a screenplay about two gay women who, get this, don't get some awful disease! Don't die! Don't break up! Don't get broken up! I'm also gonna write one called The Agenda and the main character is gonna be bisexual and it's gonna be freaking awesome. Just to spite the idiot in my class who said "there's no such thing as bisexual, you're either one or the other and the rest is for attention." BRING IT

[amarakana]

I do have a problem with people who critique by only saying what’s bad and not what’s good. It’s like, do I ever get ANYTHING right? 

[itsadani]

so I had to pitch a story I already started writing for my advanced screenplay writing class

and it was the worst

like, I already started the story, in my first screenwriting class, least fall. my professor said it was awesome and I got an A on the first 50 pages, so I know myself that I'm going in the right direction with it

but i had a hard time explaining it

and when I pitched it everybody was looking at me and I'm pretty sure a couple of people in the back were laughing at me. So that happened.

And now I feel terrible.

[onewithspectacles]

is currently writing a paper comparing The Empire Strikes Back with Aristotle's Poetics and the idea of the Hero's Journey/Monomyth of Joseph Campbell. Hopefully I can get it done on time...

[itumbleforreal]

Would any writers want to help me out with naming a supervillain?  He's an introvert who loves working with gears and cars and machinery.  Magneto-like powers.  Help me please?