Screenplay Writing

Asian Academy of Film and Television offers a course in screenplay writing. The course is well designed and tailored to provide quality education in writing. Writing for films and television programmes is a challenging job. A good screenplay writer can get high-paid job easily.

Writing is an art, which can be developed by practice. AAFT students are given training on writing. They are taught types of writing like formal and informal writing. The purpose of practical exercises is to enhance basic writing skills of students. The course curriculum includes writing strategies. Every student is given special attention. After completing the course, students work as screenplay writer with any film and television production house. They can also work as freelance writers.

Screenplay is just like a skeleton of a film on a paper. A director constructs the structure of storytelling and then adds his/her vision to produce a motion picture. Films are produced on the foundation of screenplay. Films need a perfect blueprint to transform a story into a creative film. Every film needs marketing, which is complex process involving biggest investment of money, time and creative skills.

Essentially, screenplay is an expressive form of a film that focuses on how it is going to be. A screenplay involves a complete story of a film in the form of audio and video. Screenplay is a thorough visualization and design of a film seeming by a director. To become a good writer one has to be voracious reader. The film industry has a scarcity of good scriptwriters. Therefore, screenplay writing is one of the highly paid professions in the film and television industry.

AAFT offers a course in scriptwriting, which helps students to enhance their writing skills. The course allows student to explore ideas, approaches and thought into the world of words. The film school organizes workshops and seminar where prominent screenplay writers are invited to interact with students. The seminar helps students to clear their doubts and queries. The course syllabus is given below.

• Innovative powerful characters
• Story writing and story genre
• Three act structure
• Action and motivation
• Story structure - linear & non-linear narrative
• Structure of drama
• Screenplay and visualization
• Adaptation: processes and types of adaptation
• Dialogue writing
• Fundamentals of Story - The principle, characterization, setting, narrative structure
• Aim and journey of a character, character development and creating characters

Language & Essentials of Cinema - Fundamentals

• Editing
• Acting
• Design and look
• Setting
• Variety of sounds in films & television
• Lighting and cinematography

Practical Exercises

• Practical Exercises in adaptation
• Practical Exercises in types of story writing
• Practical Exercises in screenplay writing