LLA0029 - Screenwriting II
Course Description
Learn how to write the next draft of your screenplay utilizing industry-standard best practices and get started writing your second draft. Students should have basic computer skills. The instructor Virginia Bailey is an independent film/video writer, producer, and director, and author of children's literature, including softcover, eBooks, and audiobooks. She teaches Introduction to Screenwriting, and Screenwriting II.
Course Outline
• Round-table 1st draft read-through
• How to break down and rewrite a scene
• Learn to write scene sequences
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of filmmaking
• Script/Film Analysis
• Editing dialogue
• Reintroduction of intention and obstacles
• Deeper dive into the 3-Act story structure
• Writing scenes without dialogue
• Deeper dive into story theme, plot, action, and the underlying message
• Screenwriting Business (Show Business)
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.