FADE IN: Creative Track Program: Writing

What is The Creative Track Program?
FADE IN: Creative Track Program is the beginning of your creative lifestyle. It’s a track that will lead you to success in the world of writing with huge results for your creativity. When you begin the track with an intensive intro course, you will have the tools you need to move on to the next step on the track, where you will have the opportunity to focus on a feature-length script or a series of shorts or your novel, with targeted goals to help you finish. Eventually, students on the track can continue to train with screenwriter and founder, Nadia Tabbara, in elite master’s courses.

Screenwriting 1: is the first step in FADE IN:’s creative track program, the first step towards the creative lifestyle of a writer.

In this six week course, students are introduced to the art of screenwriting and effective storytelling for movies. By the end of the 6-weeks, they will be well-versed in how to generate ideas, fight the myth of writer’s block, format a script, create believable characters and write realistically witty dialogue.

The class with screenwriter Jad el Khoury, will be taught in English. Writing must be in English, however, Arabic will be spoken and dialogue of scripts can be in Arabic if screenplay is set in an Arab country.

After completing this course, students are eligible to move up on the creative track to SCREENWRITING II where they will continue their journey towards completing movie scripts and understanding the concepts behind writing for the screen.

Session Info:
9 September | Session #1 | story & creativity
Tools for idea-building and finding your inspiration with creative techniques that ensure your own voice will shine through you work.

16 September | Session #2 | the writer’s toolbox
Format: this session focuses on the proper Format required to write a screenplay. It will contain creative games and exercises to help one assimilate to the screenplay’s specific structure and use it to strengthen their visual storytelling skills

23 September | Session #3 | the writer’s toolbox 2:
Feedback: an essential tool and one that needs to be engaged almost immediately, students will learn creative-centered feedback process on work that they have written inside of class.

30 September | Session #4 | Character:
How to create believable characters that are multidimensional and human. The hero’s journey will be examined as a method to engage story structure through the main character.

7 October | Session #5 | Dialogue:
What is a good dialogue? How do you recognize it? What does it contain and what form does it take? How can dialogue help you shape your characters and the journey of your story? Questions that we tackle in class.

14 October | Session #6 | the writer’s toolbox 3:
After writing and rewriting using all of the above elements, students will have a chance again to be workshopped, this time, with more tools in their toolbox

Cost
$250
Space is very limited
Fees must be paid in advance in order to hold your spot

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Arabic Scenario
In this four week course, students are introduced to the art of screenwriting and effective storytelling for movies. By the end of the 6-weeks, they will be well-versed in how to generate ideas, fight the myth of writer’s block, format a script, create believable characters and write realistically witty dialogue. In an effort to raise the standard of Lebanese & Arab drama writing, this course will analyze work throughout the region and beyond.

With screenwriter, Jad el Khoury, the class will be taught in Arabic and English. Writing must be in Arabic, classical, Lebanese, or any other Arab region using latin or arabic letters.

Session Info:
17 September | Session #1 | story & creativity:
Two main objectives:
1 Creativity: how to brainstorm and find inspiration, how to fight the myth of writer’s block.
2 Story: what is a story vs plot? This session will cover the different genres by which one can tell a story as well as how to do so in the format of a movie script.

24 September | Session #2 | character:
How to create believable characters that are multidimensional and human. The hero’s journey will be examined as a method to engage character and story structure.

1 October | Session #3 | dialogue:
What is a good dialogue? How do you recognize it? What does it contain and what form does it take? How can dialogue help you shape your characters and the journey of your story? Questions that we tackle in class.

8 October | Session #4 | feedback:
Feedback: an essential tool and one that needs to be engaged almost immediately, students will learn creative-centered feedback process on work that they have written inside of class.

Cost
250,000 LL per person
Space is very limited:
Fees must be paid in advance in order to hold your spot.

For more information
01.742.582