LLA0029 - Advanced Screenwriting Workshop
Course Description
Do you have previous experience in screenwriting? If you answered yes, this advanced screenwriting workshop is for you. Students should have basic computer skills. Our cutting-edge, fast-paced workshop will review:
• theme versus plot
• idea development
• 3-dimensional character development
• dialogue
• inciting incident
• story structure
• scene sequences
• genres
Students will read and write scripts and watch films. Students will need the following:
• A passion for storytelling
• A strong work ethic
• Ability to write 20 to 30 pages per week
• Willingness to critique and to be critiqued
• Willingness to post work on a secure site to exchange feedback with other students
Existing scripts are due to the instructor one to two weeks before the first workshop session. The goal of this advanced screenwriting workshop will be to complete a feature-length screenplay, or an hour-long digital dramatic program, or rewrite an existing feature-length screenplay. With hard work, this workshop could be your ticket into the festival and feature-film markets.
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Virginia Bailey's favorite saying is, "Writers write because they have something to say." Raised in Gary Indiana, Virginia studied ballet from the age of four and was a principal dancer at the Edgerton Ballet School. She began her eclectic career as a dancer in musical productions, worked in film, video, and commercials, in front of and behind the camera. Virginia tutors and teaches screenwriting for the Upward Bound Trio Program. Her screen and playwriting specialties include feature-length screenplays, theatrical musicals, and soap operas. She is the radio coach of an award-winning high school radio team that is on the air weekly, on WEPS 88.9 FM. In 2019, her students took first place, in the interviewing category, at the Terri Hemmert High School Radio Competition. A self-published author of children's books, Virginia has written and narrated several audiobooks, eBooks, and a softcover book. Created to provide youth with magical stories that are a delight and inform, Virginia's passion is helping kids of all ages to envision, see and experience the possibilities. She wears many hats and is also a very active Illinois licensed real estate broker. Virginia earned a BA degree in Communications from Roosevelt University and an MA degree in Film and Video from Columbia College Chicago.