Each session of this course includes a written lecture, a writing assignment to turn in for instructor feedback, and creative exercises to further your learning.
Session 1: Getting Started — Finding a Concept and Planning a Budget
Session 2: Fleshing Out Your Premise — Building Characters and a Series Arc
Session 3: Setting a Scope and Writing Your Pilot
Session 4: Strengthening Your Series — Action, Dialogue, and Distribution
What will you learn?
Who should attend?
Meet the instructor
Rebecca Norris Resnick
Rebecca Norris Resnick is a screenwriter, filmmaker, instructor for Writer’s Digest University, and columnist for Script Magazine. Distributed features include Cloudy With a Chance of Sunshine (Indie Rights and House Lights Media) and short films On Becoming a Man (Shorts International) and Toasted, which won the Canadian Film Centre’s ShortsNonStop competition. Rebecca’s films have screened in festivals worldwide including Cannes, Dances With Films, Hollyshorts, Manhattan Film Festival, Breckenridge Film Festival, and the Julien Dubuque Film Festival, and have won and been nominated for numerous awards. Rebecca is also an alumna of the ABC/Disney Television Discovers program, where her script Misfortune Cookies was performed in both New York and Los Angeles. When not working on her newest project, Rebecca stays on her toes chasing both her adorable daughter and her tuxedo cat, Sox.
Learn more about Rebecca at rebeccanorrisresnick.com.
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