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SCREENLAB: WRITING LOW BUDGET FILM AND TVSCREENLAB: WRITING LOW BUDGET FILM AND TV

News release 26/02/2010

Saturday 20 March 2010
10.30am-5.30pm (registration 10.15am)
Tutor: Charles Harris

New Course

There is a greater demand than ever for scripts that work really well at low budget level but you can't just recycle a more expensive script and take out the big scenes!

You need to tell stories differently, and the process of learning how will improve your storytelling across the board.

In this intensive one-day workshop, you will see how to develop scripts that work to maximum effect with minimum money and become a much more powerful - and employable - storyteller.

Making a Splash

You will start the day by learning where the money goes! You will be surprised when you learn what costs the most and what you have to avoid if you are going to have a hope of keeping the budget down.

And as you'll see there is also great fun to be had in finding how to make a lack of cash into a positive asset, bringing the best out of the script and the team and turning obstacles into advantages.

You will discover what works best for the audiences - what they expect and what brings them in.

You will look in depth at the genres which work best when the money is tight, learn how to structure a script to bring the most out of a small budget and how to develop scenes that can look a million dollars despite the most intense production pressure.

You will deepen your character development skills so that you can create characters that will attract the right actors and enable them to perform to their highest level, and practise writing dialogue and visuals that will survive and thrive in the most challenging conditions and make the finished film look as if it cost ten times as much as it did.

You will leave with a full understanding of the thrill of writing low budget, and the skills to make your scripts kind to the producer's wallet while creating films and dramas that work.

Click here to access the Euroscript website.

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