Beginning Screenwriting

Have a story you’ve been meaning to tell? This course takes you from a blank page to a real start on your screenplay. Through lectures, script readings, discussion, and in-class writing exercises, you’ll learn the fundamentals of visual storytelling for film and TV: character, plot, theme, dialogue, genre, and professional format. We’ll also take an honest look at AI and screenwriting: how it can be a useful tool for brainstorming, research, and getting unstuck, where it falls short, and why your voice, taste, and point of view are what no tool can replace. You’ll leave knowing how to use AI, and how not to let AI use you. By the end of the course, you’ll have a complete outline and about 30 pages of your own script, plus the skills to keep going. No experience necessary, just curiosity.