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Creating the Viral Web Series

REBECCA NORRIS RESNICK

Creating the Viral Web Series

REBECCA NORRIS RESNICK

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In recent years, the Internet has created space for an entirely new storytelling format: the web series. Cheap to make and easily accessible for viewers, a web series can be the perfect way for you to get started as a filmmaker and be noticed for your talent. All you need is the right set of tools and skills.

Although unique in format and distribution, the web series at its core contains the same basic elements that we look for in every type of visual entertainment: memorable characters, satisfying stories, and intriguing conflict. If you can demonstrate your writing talent in a web series, you’ll also be proving your ability to handle larger-scale formats like feature screenplays and television scripts.

By the end of the course, you’ll have your pilot in hand — and a plan for where you want to take your series in subsequent episodes. With skills that are applicable not only to this format but to writing any kind of script — and an understanding of how to keep viewers coming back for more — you’ll be well on your way to writing your own viral web series that will stand out from the crowd! Whether you’re interested in comedy or drama, this course will give you the tools you need to get started writing and producing your very own series from the ground up.

Join the Waitlist

Subscribe to be notified when this course opens for registration.

In recent years, the Internet has created space for an entirely new storytelling format: the web series. Cheap to make and easily accessible for viewers, a web series can be the perfect way for you to get started as a filmmaker and be noticed for your talent. All you need is the right set of tools and skills.

Although unique in format and distribution, the web series at its core contains the same basic elements that we look for in every type of visual entertainment: memorable characters, satisfying stories, and intriguing conflict. If you can demonstrate your writing talent in a web series, you’ll also be proving your ability to handle larger-scale formats like feature screenplays and television scripts.

By the end of the course, you’ll have your pilot in hand — and a plan for where you want to take your series in subsequent episodes. With skills that are applicable not only to this format but to writing any kind of script — and an understanding of how to keep viewers coming back for more — you’ll be well on your way to writing your own viral web series that will stand out from the crowd! Whether you’re interested in comedy or drama, this course will give you the tools you need to get started writing and producing your very own series from the ground up.

Course outline

Course outline

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.

Meet the instructor

Rebecca Norris Resnick

Rebecca Norris Resnick is a screenwriter, filmmaker, script analyst, 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. Her web series, Split, won multiple awards at LA WebFest and was nominated for an Indie Series Award. 

Rebecca’s films have screened in festivals worldwide including the Cannes Film Festival, Dances With Films, Hollyshorts, and the Manhattan Film Festival, and have won 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. As a script analyst, she has read for many contests/companies, including Sundance, Screencraft, BlueCat, Screen Queensland, Coverfly, ScriptXpert, QED Entertainment (District 9, Fury), and Southpaw Entertainment (The Space Between Us, August Rush). When not working on her newest project, Rebecca stays on her toes chasing both her adorable daughter and her tuxedo cat, Sox.

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