Reading, watching and analyzing the award winning feature film, "Ex Machina" to understand its structural beats to give students a framework for how to craft stories for film and the methods/processes/systems/categories needed to effectively do so.
Developing the concepts and stories that will ultimately lead to short and feature film screenplays through the pre-writing elements of The Hook, The Logline, The One Page and The Structural Outline.
Take the foundational work from the pre-writing phase into a 5 draft phase of short film development wherein each draft hones in on and isolates a different fundamental aspect of screenplay construction: Rough draft (sketch), Story, Character, Dialogue and Theme intended to ultimately improve the script into a highly refined and finalized state.
Taking the base story from the Short Film phase, we will expand upon those stories into the Feature Film realm by exploring the 1st Act of feature film writing. Attempting an entire feature will be too daunting of a task, so we will instead begin to flesh out their short stories into their more thoroughly built out features. Areas that will be highly focused on are Set Up, Character Development, Scene Structure, Transition, Dialogue and Tonal Development.