A screenwriting course for teens interested in writing their own film or television series!
Led by Saundra Mitchell, the head screenwriter for Dreaming Tree Films for 18 years, Mitchell produced more than 400 short films, ten of which earned Academy Award Eligibility. She was an executive producer for Fresh Films, the world’s largest teen filmmaking program, and taught the Screenwriting Intensive for Fresh Films, as well.
This class will consist of screenplay introduction, screenwriting instruction, steps to take to make screenwriting a career, and a screenwriting intensive. All students will write at 4-minute film, with feedback on the first draft, and feedback and letter grade (if requested)!
Students will be encouraged to explore free screenwriting software curated by Mitchell, to use during class. No purchases outside of class are required. (In fact, instructor discourages the purchase of any screenwriting software until a student has worked with free software and produced several scripts. Professional screenwriting software is expensive (running from $150-300,) and should be considered an investment in the future, not a pre-requisite for this course.)
Screenplays we may look at during this class include:
Movies:
Barbie
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Killers of the Flower Moon
Encanto
Everything Everywhere All at Once
La La Land
Little Women
A Quiet Place
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Television:
American Horror Story
The Big Bang Theory
Found
Interview with the Vampire
Only Murders in the Building
Stranger Things
Young Rock
Screenplays will be provided for download.
