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Writing an Animation Feature-Film Screenplay

Course Details
  • Course Number ANC-1226-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 214 East 21st Street

Description

How to transform an original idea into a strong story treatment and then a final script is the focus of this course. Each student will take his or her concept and develop it into the 12 steps of a hero's journey by learning how to create strong characters (hero, villain, mentors and sidekicks), compile a mythology of rules for their special worlds, and then incorporate those ingredients into a strong story. We will discuss how to keep the project both specific and broad, unique yet familiar (a mind-boggling reality in Hollywood), in order to achieve the ultimate goal: franchise status. Throughout the development process, students will strengthen their stories and explore how to monitor the marketability of their characters, with an emphasis on honing dialogue, so that it appeals to both children and adults. Students will complete this course with a polished animation script, a command of the development process, and a much fuller understanding of the animation film industry.

Instructor

James Grimaldi

Screenwriter

Education:

BA, University of Toronto; MSW, Yeshiva University

Clients include:

Disney, Hyperion Publishers, Imagineering

professional experience include:

Film development, 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema

Screenplays include:

Bubbles, Faster!, Stewart and the Stewardess

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The Screenwriter: Finding and Developing Your Inner Voice

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-2136-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 470.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

This introductory course is designed to discover how to best find and tap into one's unique voice. Students will learn to view writing as a process, an ongoing developing skill and an art form to be practiced and refined. Discussions will focus on creativity and how it is affected by everyday experiences, spirituality and how we choose to live our lives. The goal is to realize a greater understanding of what it means to be creative and productive through our writings. Students will be assisted in manifesting their ideas into a first-draft screenplay. There will be guest lecturers (directors, actors and writers) and assigned readings.

Instructor

Gary Richards

Screenwriter, playwright, director, actor

Education:

BS, Union College

Full-length plays include:

The Root, Dividends, Stag, Children at Play, Scrambled Eggs, Second Summer, Slambook, Tropical Depression, Shiva, Social Studies, A Chip in Time, Somebody’s Somebody

Screenplays include:

In Scoring Position, Beating Hearts, Doin’ Time, Butch and Kiki, Two Regular Guys, Garage Band, The Root, The Other Shoe, Mista, The Florida Room, Two Moms and a Baby, To Go, Never Up-Never In, Continuing Ed, Soul Custody

Awards include:

Best Writing, Best Play, Dramalogue Award; Colleagues Theater Company Playwriting Award

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Writing the Feature Film

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-2843-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:30PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

This course is designed for those with a solid understanding of the principles of feature-length screenwriting and have an existing script or a new script they want to develop. We will focus on creating a commercially viable premise and storyline that can sustain an entire script, including developing characters with emotional depth, and creating believable dialogue. Techniques for learning and perfecting log lines and pitches will also be incorporated.
PREREQUISITE: CFC-2136, The Screenwriter: Finding and Developing Your Inner Voice, or equivalent.

Instructor

James Strouse

Writer, director

Education:

BA, Goshen College

Film credits include:

writer, Lonesome Jim; writer, director, Grace is Gone, The Winning Season

Awards include:

Best screenplay, Nantucket Film Festival; Audience Award, Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, Sundance Film Festival; International Critics Award, Deauville Film Festival

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