The Art and Craft of Screen Adaptations with Karel Segers - 12 Jul 2008
Many great screenplays originate from first-time screenwriters. They tell an original, idiosyncratic story that has matured for years, with touches of deep realism, flesh-and-blood characters and sparkling, acutely lively situations.
The ‘original story’ of a first-time screenwriter is often a direct adaptation of observations from the real world. When it comes to screenwriting, writing successfully is adapting successfully. To write great poetry, novels and plays, your mastery of language needs to transcend the functional to the realm of magical. As a screenwriter, the magic is in the material and its structure, not in the text per se. The art of screen adaptation isn’t much of an art at all. It is a learnable skill.
This workshop helps you to:
- recognise why some adaptations worked beautifully and others flopped
- identify the potential for a screen story in your own material (novel, short story, bio etc.)
- structure your material into a screenplay that works, based on the much touted but rarely understood ‘three act-structure’.
12 July from 10-5pm (with a break for lunch)
Cost: $90 members of ACT Writers Centre, AWG and ACT Filmmakers Network
$72 concessions
$140 non-members.
Bookings essential on 6262 9191 or on-line at www.actwriters.org.au/workshops.html
The ‘original story’ of a first-time screenwriter is often a direct adaptation of observations from the real world. When it comes to screenwriting, writing successfully is adapting successfully. To write great poetry, novels and plays, your mastery of language needs to transcend the functional to the realm of magical. As a screenwriter, the magic is in the material and its structure, not in the text per se. The art of screen adaptation isn’t much of an art at all. It is a learnable skill.
This workshop helps you to:
- recognise why some adaptations worked beautifully and others flopped
- identify the potential for a screen story in your own material (novel, short story, bio etc.)
- structure your material into a screenplay that works, based on the much touted but rarely understood ‘three act-structure’.
12 July from 10-5pm (with a break for lunch)
Cost: $90 members of ACT Writers Centre, AWG and ACT Filmmakers Network
$72 concessions
$140 non-members.
Bookings essential on 6262 9191 or on-line at www.actwriters.org.au/workshops.html