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Get your Story out of your Head

Write: Your First Draft

Write: Your First Draft

Have you started writing a screenplay only to get stuck half way through? Editing instead of finishing? Discovering new ideas and connections as you go, ideas that force you to go back in order to set them up? Struggling to turn the story in your head into a cohesive narrative? Or are you having trouble just getting started?

Learn from a professional with decades of experience. one step at a time. We'll develop your premise through a process that builds your story from the concept up, by simply doing the right next step, teaching you how to write a full finished draft that actually works.

Our 8-Session Online Course is 100% focused on your project, creating rapid tangible progress in every session.

Works for:
• Feature Film Sceenplays
• One Hour TV/Streaming Pilot Scripts
• Half Hour TV/Streaming Pilot Scripts


Get your passion project out of your head and onto the page with Super Script.

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Course overview:

  • Week one: Concept Development

    Assess Your Concept
    Genre & Antecedents
    Storytypes
    Your Logline
    Logline +

  • Week two: Rough 3-Act structure

    Beginning, Middle & End
    The 4 Quarters of Story
    The Reel Story of Sequences
    Rough Structure
    Objectives & Conflict

  • WEEK THREE: CHARACTER CREATION

    Character Basics
    Personal Attributes
    Personal Relationships
    A Relatable Protagonist
    Physical & Emotional Journey

  • Week four: 3-Act Structure

    Arcing your Hero
    The top 40 Structural Beats
    Tent Pole Beats
    Beat Relations
    Emotional Reversals

  • week five: Sequ/Ep structure

    Sequence & Episode Arcs
    The top 40 Sequence Beats
    Sequ/Ep Tent Poles
    The Sudoku of Sequ/Eps
    Employing Mechanics

  • Week six: Scene Breakdown

    Scene Headings
    Character & Location Intros
    Defining Scene Mechanics
    Character Beyond Plan A
    Collapse or Expand Scenes

  • Week seven: treatment

    Causality of Action/Reaction
    Revelation of Character
    Servicing Scene Mechanics
    Formatting the 4 True Elements
    Turning Action into Shots

  • Week Eight: Dialogue & Script page

    Action, Character & Subtext
    The Iceberg Method
    Distinct Voices
    Reflecting Emotional States
    Active Emotion

  • Plug & Play sessions

    Our popular Extra Single Sessions are available as you need them, helping you dig deeper into any of the topics we cover. Plug & Play session can be ordered one at a time, or bundled to save you money.

  • free Bonus content

    Development Blueprints:
    • SSMDB - Movie
    • SS3SPB - 3 Step Pilot
    • SSCCB - Character Creation
    • SSFBB - Flashback & Backstory

  • 24 Hours =

    8 x 3 Hour Sessions

  • Convenient Electronic Delivery

  • Requires Microsoft Excel

  • Requires Final Draft 12 or 13

  • RMIT UNI 10+ Years of Courses

  • Human Creativity Only

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