TV SERIES WRITING
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS
7 PM BST
TV SERIES WRITING
8 OCT 2024 - 14 NOV 2024
DURATION:
6 WEEKS
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS
7 PM BST
Refine your creativity - master skills in storytelling, structure, format, and genre conventions to craft a masterful series pitch.
Follow James Moran, award-winning scriptwriter with 20+ years experience, as he guides you through the creative and technical processes of TV writing.
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU, IF...
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YOU ARE AGENT-REPRESENTED AND WANT DIRECTION
Are you full of ideas but unsure how to make them stand out? Our TV writing course teaches top-class pitching techniques that highlight the unique selling points of your script. Success is just a course away!
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YOU ARE IN ANOTHER FIELD OF WRITING AND WANT TO MOVE INTO TV
Discover your talent for TV scriptwriting as you journey through the creative and technical processes of the industry. Learn to thoroughly research your ideas and generate compelling narratives, engaging characters, and dialogue.
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YOU HAVE COMPLETED A RELATED UNIVERSITY COURSE BUT WANT PRACTICAL APPLICATION
Navigate the practical elements of the day-to-day in the UK television industry. Learn everything from developing marketable pitches for your series, to understanding commercial aspects and building an industry network with our TV writing classes.
Bring your dream to screen.
Watch your vision come to life! Captivate audiences with relatable characters, epic plot-twists, and heartwarming moments. Develop the skills you need to thrive in the TV industry.
An entire world is at your fingertips. All you have to do is ‘click’.
You can’t know if an idea is truly excellent until you’ve run it past an expert. Well, with this course you can!
Get LIVE feedback, and advice, from someone who has over 20 years of industry experience.
Get practical experience in researching and refining your ideas, writing believable characters, mastering pacing and tension, and more through homework assignments and workshops.
Our comprehensive array of assignments will prepare you for every element required in your final series pitch document. You will also get hands-on experience in crafting and researching ideas, and writing theory, in workshops.
And for the big finale? Compile weeks of your creative assignments together into a series pitch document that tells the story of who YOU are as a writer. This is where you bridge the gap between these lessons and the real world of TV.
- Show lead, Pocket FM & working with London FIlm School
- Has won countless awards, such as 5 Streamy awards and ‘Best Horror’ at the International Film Festival
- Wrote on Severance, Tower Block, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Primeval, Eve and Crossing Lines
- His work has been licensed for use across the globe
- Has had his work screened in Canada and the US in addition to the UK
- Instructor Introduction
- Course Objectives & Flow
- Q & A
- What a TV Writer Does
- Roles of the TV Writer
- Overview of the UK Television Industry
- Trends in the UK Television Industry
- ASSIGNMENT 1: Quiz on fundamentals
- TV vs. Film Writing
- Deciding on Your Script Type
- TV Pilots
- UK TV Show Dramas
- Researching Ideas
- Creating Ideas with Depth and Hook
- Testing Ideas
- FEEDBACK WORKSHOP: Students break into groups and share their ideas with each other for feedback.
- TV Script Formatting
- TV Series Pipeline
- Structure of a TV Episode and Season
- Industry Standards and Expectations
- ASSIGNMENT 2: Application of structural elements that shape a successful TV series to the students’ original TV show concept
This workshop focuses on the three-acts structure, motifs, and themes in UK television. In the workshop, students will create their own concept for an episode of a TV show.
- Character Creation & Development
- Character Archetypes & Stereotypes
- Motivations and Conflicts
- Believable and Authentic Dialogue
- ASSIGNMENT 3: Lead/secondary character design
- Understanding Narrative Beats
- Slow Burn vs. Rapid Fire Pacing
- Tension and Release
- ASSIGNMENT 4: Quiz on pacing and tension
- TV Writing & Visual Storytelling
- Cinematography & Shot Selection
- Visual Symbolism & Motifs
- Writing Visual Storytelling Within Genre
- ASSIGNMENT 5: In-depth description of the establishing shot of the students’ original series concepts
- Defining the series pitch
- Series concept and log line
- ASSIGNMENT 6: Concept and log line
- Setting and world-building
- Tone and style
- Target audience and marketabilities
- Preparing a pitch
- How to pitch a script
- Navigating the UK television industry
- Networking in the UK television industry
- ASSIGNMENT 7: Series Description
- Contracts and negotiations
- Working with agents and representatives
- Protecting intellectual property
FINAL PROJECT: Putting all the assignments together into a series pitch document
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