Advanced Screenwriting – Workshop With Craig Batty

You know the basics. Now, deepen your screenplay plotting and scene writing skills.

Emerging and practising screenwriters who want to advance their skills in plotting and scene writing, look no further. This workshop uses paradigms of character and theme to explore authentic, skilful plotting, so that you can translate this into scenes that ‘work hard’ both visually, subtextually, and on a dialogue level. Participants will work on their own projects and workshop-generated content, leaving with an enhanced screenwriters' skillset and understanding.

Learning Outcomes

You will improve your writing and script development skills through practical models, creative exercises and group discussions in the following key areas:
- Learn about plotting at both a macro and micro level
- Use the character journey to develop an approach to plotting
- Embrace theme to cohere and deepen overall screenplay structure and individual scene writing
- Explore visuality and how it relates to character journey and theme
- Craft rich and tight dialogue in relation to scene structure and purpose
- Understand the nature of dramatic conflict at a scene level

Unavailable to make it in person? The Queensland Writers Centre also offers the opportunity to watch this workshop via online live stream. Tickets and further information are available at Eventbrite.