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BBC Maestro

Writing Drama for Television

via BBC Maestro

Overview

Join Jed as he goes deep into the anatomy of a television drama script. Spoiler alert: there’s more science in telling a story than you might think.
  • Develop your idea into an outline
  • Create compelling characters and setting
  • Learn the science of story structure
  • Write your pilot screenplay
  • Build a series bible and shape your story arc
  • Grow your career as a writer

Syllabus

  • Writers are made, not born
  • Inspiration
  • Developing ideas
  • What kind of show are you making?
  • The setting
  • Relationship between character and setting
  • Starting the pilot
  • The content of the pilot
  • Story architecture
  • Inciting incidents
  • Science of a story
  • Set-ups and natural story
  • Story events
  • Plots and subplots
  • Episodes
  • Projecting forward - the series bible part 1
  • Projecting forward - the series bible part 2
  • Coefficients of narrative power 1
  • Coefficients of narrative power 2
  • Coefficients of narrative power 3
  • Dialogue
  • Attenuators of narrative power 1
  • Attenuators of narrative power 2
  • Attenuators of narrative power 3
  • Mastering your craft
  • Fallacies
  • Rewriting and collaboration
  • Career development

Taught by

Jed Mercurio

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