Learn How I Write A Movie Script within a Month

Learn to write compelling movie scripts using logical techniques in this comprehensive course, guiding you from idea to query letter for industry success.

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Brief Summary

This course teaches you how to write a screenplay from scratch, focusing on using logic over creativity. You’ll learn to summarize ideas, create treatments, and format your work while gaining insights on industry standards to catch an agent's or director's attention.

Key Points

  • Transform ideas into screenplays using logical steps.
  • Create a page summary, Treatment, and formatted screenplay.
  • Learn to write a query letter for getting noticed.
  • Understand different screenplay types and avoid writer's block.
  • Gain real-life insights from an experienced ghostwriter.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students will be able to format a novel into a screenplay.
  • Students will know how to write a query letter for industry submission.
  • Students will understand the screenplay creation process from start to finish.
  • Students will be equipped with strategies to overcome writer's block.
  • Students will gain knowledge of different screenplay types and industry standards.

About This Course

A way to easily write movie scripts by using logic more than creativity

This course is a complementary course to the How I Write a Novel within a month, but it is its own course. Taking the other course will simply benefit you more. In this course, we will go over taking an idea, creating a page summary from the idea, creating a Treatment from that page summary, and turning that Treatment into a full-fledged screenplay. This is a no-nonsense course that has a ton of information packed into a small amount of time. By the end of this course, a student will be able to take practically anything they want and turn it into a working screenplay. Once we're done making and formatting a screenplay, I show you how to make a query letter, which is how you'll get an agent or a director to look at your screenplay to make it in a movie. These are industry standard methods of stepping your literary foot into Hollywood.

Not only do I cover the entire Screenplay Creation Process(not a software), but I give helpful tips on how to avoid getting that nasty writer's block. I also talk about the different types screenplays beyond the basic dialogue screenplays and how to draw on the inspiration of the screenplay writers that have come before to solve problems you're currently having.

If you're new to the industry and want to quickly learn pretty much everything there is to learn about screenplay writing, then this is the course for you. I have been professionally ghostwriting screenplays for years and have even had the pleasure of watching my hidden works come out on the big screen. I have never written a screenplay that I took credit for and I don't mind that, because ghostwriting has the benefit of short-term risk, which means so long as the client likes it I still get paid.

This course goes from literally nothing, to a full-fledge screenplay and a query letter. I walk you through each step and real life reasons why certain things are done a certain way, like why filler characters are put into the character summary when they're not that important. So, come on in and let's write a screenplay.

  • Students will be able to format a novel to a screenplay.

  • Students will be able to have the necessary items that are considered standard for submitting a screenplay to an agent or director in the industry.

Instructor

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Tommy Mertell

I am a Freelance Developer with more than 10 years of experience, having started in Web Development when MySpace was still popular and 2D graphics were the kings of free gaming. I am also an Author of a few novels and a Ghost Writer for more novels than I can account for. From developing websites to making video games, there's...

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4.9 course rating
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Adrian K.
2.0
4 years ago

Its pretty lame. Few examples. "Instructor" exudes arrogance. I get the feeling that much of his claimed accomplishments are questionable. Maybe I am wrong but my gut says otherwise. Good writing takes time and what he is saying counters my personal beliefs in steady but patience..

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Inbal A.
4.0
5 years ago

I like the content. I guess people that take this course really need to know all about the sizes and data of the font and how to write according to the font scripts rules. I take this course to learn how to write for myself, not in purpose to pass it to a professional person. So I wont use this data. It is okay for me to hear all about it though.
I think the teacher is taking little bit too fast. I needed to pause many time and rewind and hear it again so i will understand and will be able to write it down.
Other than that it is very interesting, and i had already learn a lot. I’m glad i took this course.

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Glenda W.
4.0
5 years ago

Need to hear it again!

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Sasha
5.0
6 years ago

Great Course!!! Explanation is clear and straight to the point! Well structured and organized. The material is applicable in the real world! Many Thanks !!!

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Michelle C.
3.5
7 years ago

Very insightful, but would like a little more instruction on what to send to agents and how.

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Randy P.
4.0
7 years ago

so far so good

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Teresa M.
4.5
7 years ago

learn a lot. thank you

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Paul S.
5.0
7 years ago

very informative

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ui-avatar of Sheku  D Koroma
Sheku D. K.
5.0
8 years ago

Clear and simplistic explanation.

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Andy F.
5.0
8 years ago

Simple, but useful advice. I've got & read/watched a lot of writing resources, esp. on the subject of speed & productivity. Few really offer much worthwhile practical advice beyond the intuitively obvious. This one does.

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