Learn Screenwriting from European Experts
SCRIPWRITING AND SCREENWRITING TRAINING ONLINE
DearCinema.com in collaboration with www.cineuropa.org presents online screenwriting course. www.cineuropa.org is a leading online resource on European cinema co-funded by the MEDIA Plus Program of the European Commission, the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium, Dipartimento dello Spettacolo, the French Centre National de la Cinématographie, the ICAA, Swiss Films, Filmunio, German Films, Luxembourg Film Fund, Malta Film Commission and the Irish Film Board.
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How does one learn the craft of writing a film screenplay? By working with a senior scriptwriter, reading “teach yourself” guides or by seeking professional advice. DearCinema.com in collaboration with European Cinema portal cineuropa.org, offers a unique course that combines these three and the best part is–it is offered via email and at an affordable price.
Eight simple lessons and eight exercises to measure your progress and an experienced teacher always available to answer all your questions privately, clearing your doubts, analyzing structure issues and helping you understand the basics of formatting, dialogue writing, and rewriting. At the end of the course, besides having enjoyed the 14 weeks, you will be familiar with the technical aspects of scriptwriting acceptable worldwide and learn the fundamentals of the theory of screenwriting. And most importantly, you will be capable to write your own movie, based on your talent and level of passion and committment.
Download our first lesson free and see for yourself if you would like to enroll.
Download Lesson n. 1 here. Read it, evaluate it, do the exercise as instructed, send it to our expert. Together with the exercise, ask the teacher all your questions concerning the contents of the lesson and the course. In a few days you will receive a corrected exercise and the answers to all your questions, thus verifying with your own eyes how useful and fun these lessons are.
After this, you can decide whether to enroll or not. To continue the course, contact us declaring your intention to continue the eight-lesson course and make a bank transfer payment. This way, you will be added to the first course on the calendar, during which, over the next 14 weeks, you’ll receive the other 7 lessons (one every two weeks). At the end of each lesson, you will be invited to do your homework which you will email back to your teacher. Within 7 days, your teacher will correct your homework and send it back to you. The 14 weeks offer an optimum amount of time to study the lessons and do your homework and meanwhile, in case of doubts, ask for explanations.
The lessons (that will be sent in PDF format) are easily read and apt even for who has little leisure time. At the same time, however, they deal with all aspects of screenwriting in a complete and exhaustive way. Actually, the know-how you will possess at the end of the course is superior to any average course and includes a great numbers of interesting and practical issues that aren’t generally taught at traditional courses.
For further info on contents and organization of courses: contact us.
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The main reason to enroll to the course is because these lessons represent an efficient synthesis between teach yourself guides and traditional courses. The former, in fact, are free from any guiding element and external verification and are often insufficient. The latter, instead, are often uselessly expensive and don’t necessarily offer the correct tools to learn the subject.
The reasons to enroll to the course are many:
- because the course forces you to a commitment: initially only two-three pages of homework to become familiar with the subject, while at the end of the course you will be asked to write a short film.
- because the course can be followed directly from home (or from your office). You will therefore be able to read the lessons at your leisure time and communicate privately with your teacher at any moment. This way, you never risk losing a lesson!
- When you do your exercises, you won’t have to correct them yourself, nor jot down a cross or two on some answer. If you have doubts, you don’t have to find the answer in some “faq” page. Somebody here reads what you write and is always available to guide you.
What’s the purpose of the first act of your script? What’s the “subtext” of a dialogue? How can the parentheticals be used at their best? This is the type of questions that every screenwriter should know how to answer and finally this course dedicates the right space to them. But obviously let’s not forget the fundamentals… Syd Field’s paradigm, the function of the scenes, the role of the subplot. From the idea all the way to Hollywood standards for bounding a script! Not without giving a good look at the format - a fixed idea of any aspiring screenwriter! Following are the 9 lessons in detail. Notice that the list contains only the “main” subjects of the lesson. Actually, each lesson is made up of many more details and issues concerning screenwriting, and the main feature of this course is the many small and extemporary paragraphs dedicated to unusual ideas, practical suggestions, alternative paths.
- SCREENPLAY FORMAT (all the formal rules of formatting)
- THE SCENE (what distinguishes a good-written scene)
- FROM THE IDEA TO THE TREATMENT (all the passages in the creation of a story)
- SET-UP/PAY-OFF (”knotting” and “unknotting” the threads of your story)
- THE THREE-ACT STRUCTURE (how to make your life easier dividing the script in three parts)
- THE CHARACTERS (suggestions to better define the characters of your script)
- THE FIRST TEN PAGES AND THE GRAND FINALE (the most delicate phases of your script)
- REWRITING (writing is rewriting)
The first 5 exercises concern the writing of six mini-screenplays (3-5 pages each), starting from a pre-fixed theme. Each exercise is conceived to emphasize a particular aspect of film writing and finalized to verify the correct application of the basic notions of the subject. Exercises 6-7-8 are connected in order to set up the writing of a short film script.
The first lesson can be downloaded for free in any moment from this site. The other 7 lessons will be sent via email to who enrolls every 14 days. Between one lesson and another, there are two weeks of time during which the student can read the lesson and send his/her exercise receiving an answer within 7 days most. The second lesson will be sent the first Friday following subscription. The final deadline to send in your exercises is 14 days after having received the eight and last lesson (there will however be a tolerance time of two months. See F.A.Q. at end of page for details).
The total cost of the screenwriting course is 320 euros. (Rs 20,400 approximately–click here to know latest currency rate)The payment must be made in a single instalment at the moment of the definite subscription (meaning after the first test and obviously only if you decide to continue the course).How TO ENROLL
Contact us stating that your want to enroll yourself for the course. You will then receive a confirmation of your enrollment together with the data necessary for the payment through bank transfer. If the payment isn’t made within a week, the subscription is terminated automatically.
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Adele Dorothy Ciampa was born in New Jersey (USA), on March 22, 1966. After studying at a Medical School for some time, she graduated in Literature and Philosophy and followed many writing courses with the world’s most famous screenwriting ‘gurus’, as Bob McKee, Jurgen Wolff, John Vorhaus. She earned a diploma at the Mediaset Fiction School; followed a few Arista European Screenwriting Workshops; and studied drama with famous Italian writer Dacia Maraini. She also pursued an NYU course in directing and acting. She wrote some of Italy’s most famous soap-operas, such as “Un posto al sole” (Rai 3), “Vivere” (Canale 5), “Cuori rubati” (Rai 2) and has now specializes in TV-series, besides being a reader and consultant at Sony Pictures (Columbia Italy) and other production companies. Besides writing, she is a translator and a teacher at Daniele Cirpiani’s TV Academy. Recently, she’s written the musical “Mary of Nazareth”, to be staged soon with music by Stelvio Cipriani (Oscar-winner for “Anonimo Veneziano”).
- Does the course require a previous experience or is it suitable even for absolute beginners? No kind of previous preparation is necessary to enroll to the course. Moreover, no further lessons will be necessary to write a screenplay after the course.
- Is any particular computer skill necessary to follow the course? No, the course is organized in such a way to be feasible to whomever has knowledge of electronic mail.
- What software is necessary? Acrobat reader that can be downloaded here for free
- What’s the average time of reply to our questions? You will always receive an answer within 7 days, often even in 3-5 days. If for exceptional reasons our teachers will not be able to answer within the 7 days, you will be advised of the delay by email and receive an answer as soon as possible.
- Is it obligatory to end an exercise before receiving the following lesson? It would be best to keep up to the rhythm of the lessons, for example ending exercise n. 3 during the two weeks that separate you between the Lesson 3 and 4. Naturally, if over that period, the student hasn’t completed his exercise, he can make up during the following weeks. The main issue is to finish all exercises within the end of the course (precisely, 14 days after the last lesson was sent).
In case the student hasn’t ended his exercises within the 14 weeks of the course, there will however be a two-week tolerance after the official ending of the course (precisely, 14 days after the last lesson was sent). Over that period, however, the 7-day answer rule will not be respected, so the teachers’ answers could request up to 15 days. - Are the courses for all ages? Yes.
- What type of help should I expect from the teacher of the course? An informal service, competent, passionate. You can be sure to find her available. A teacher who offer simple answers yet thoroughly exhaustive. Exhaustive corrections and answers in a short time, and not poems!
- What happens to the exercises I send to the teacher? They’re deleted after being read and nobody, except the teacher, can read such material. If from an email exchange with a student, a major technical issue arises that can be of interest for the other students, these issues will be faced in collective emails without nominating the student’s exercise, except if previously authorized by the student himself. Privacy and copyright rights of all subscribers are always highly protected.
- Does the course take place entirely via email? Yes.
- Does the course release a certificate or a diploma? Yes but it’s simply a souvenir of the lessons. Don’t enroll for this reason.
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DISCLAIMER
DearCinema.com only facilitates Indian students to enroll for this course. Fees are paid directly to cineuropa that delivers the course material and guidance online directly to the candidates. In the case of a dispute between teacher / cineuropa and student, DearCinema.com will help students in getting the issue redressed, however, the right to refund the fee lies entirely with cineuropa.org. For quality assurance reasons and help cineuropa to localize and make the course more relevant for Indian students DearCinema.com can access exercises submitted by students, however, we assure that it won’t be used for any other purpose and we won’t share it with anybody except DearCinema editors.
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