Screenwriter Crash Course

In this Screenwriter Crash Course, you will learn to use Final Draft the industry standard in Script Writing software. You will design your own unique television or web series script and more and be it drama, or comedy, or something in between. You’ll learn to break down the creative process into components, as you’ll discover a structured process that allows you to produce a polished and pitch-ready script in just a few months. Completing this certification will increase your confidence in your ideas and abilities. You’ll be prepared to pitch your first script and get started on your next and many more to follow in becoming a professional screen writer.

Writing in First Person Point Of View

In this course, If you have always wanted to tell your own story—in a memoir, first-person essay, or any other form of autobiographical non-fiction—but felt you lacked the tools or the framework, this is the class for you. We will learn how successful first-person writing is structured to offer the reader a sense of propulsive motion and is guided by a narrator who is deliberately crafted. We will explore the ways in which language can be used to create tone, so that the emotional freight of your words is as potent as the storytelling. And crucially, we will consider the writer’s responsibility to the reader: the importance of being a guide who includes the reader in the sensory, emotional, and intellectual experience you mean to share through your writing.

Final Draft

• This course you’ll learn Final Draft. Master Hollywood standards for screenwriting.
• This software is the definitive guide to Screenwriting with Final Draft – the leading screenwriting software in film, television, and entertainment.
• This course aims to demystify Final Draft’s complexities and offers an extensive overview of important tools, techniques, tricks, and tips to enhance your workflows and efficiency with the software. This course offers logical step-by-step instructions covering all aspects of Final Draft. From planning scripts to correctly formatted writing, spec scripts and shooting scripts, advanced techniques to working in production, and even protecting your finished screenplays. Explanations of the features and utilities will empower you to be confident when working with the software, while practical hands-on scenarios will increase your skill set. These approaches to learning are bundled into production-ready methods as you work through the creation of short film scripts.

Introduction to Computers and Office Productivity Software:

In this course, you will learn the following essential computer skills for the digital age:

• Major hardware components of a computer system
• Different types of software on a computer system
• Photo Editing using GIMP
• Word processing applications, including MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint

Understanding Memory Through Movies

Someone once said that memory is fascinating because sometimes we forget what we want to remember, sometimes we remember what we want to forget, and sometimes we remember events that never happened or never happened the way we remember them. In this course you will learn you how memory works, why it sometimes fails, and what we can do to enhance it. This class will provide an introduction to the scientific study of human memory by focusing on a select group of topics that hold widespread appeal.

To facilitate your understanding, This class will use clips from numerous films to illustrate different aspects of memory – describing what has been learned about memory in a nontechnical way for people with no prior background in psychology. Many of us love watching movies because they offer an unparalleled opportunity for entertainment, even if entertaining films are not always scientifically accurate. Still, we believe that we can learn a lot about memory from popular films, if we watch them with an educated eye.