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Writing Your Short Screenplay

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Venue:
Lippard Room
Time:
April 5 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
$50
End Date:
April 26
Number of Classes/Day:
4 Wednesdays
Ages:
14 - Adult
Register by:
April 3
Instructor:
Dannie Synder
Learn about the serious craft of short films, particularly how it serves as an entry point into the film industry. This class is an introduction to the development and analysis of a new 10-min screenplay. By the end of the course, each student will have completed a solid draft of their short film and get feedback from a community of supportive writers.
  • Workshop #1: What is a Short Screenplay, Elements to a Visual Story
  • Workshop #2: Character & Dialogue
  • Workshop #3: Develop Loglines, Synopsis, and Step Outlines / Beat Sheets
  • Workshop #4: Receive Feedback on 1st Draft of Scripts

 

Instructor : Dannie Snyder

Dannie Snyder is a filmmaker, theatre practitioner, spoken word artist, percussionist, activist. She has produced, written, directed, shot, acted, drummed, traveled around the world, and lived abroad. She has taught visual & performing arts classes for all ages as well as professional development classes for all types of artists, primarily through the Artist Relief Project, an initiative by Artly World. She has fought for social and political change for a variety of causes, including access to medicine, improving our public education system, sustainable funding for the arts, and much more. Check out her book ARTIVISM OF RETURNING CITIZENS: Artist Activists of the Nation’s Capital Impacting the Prison Abolition Movement and other publications, as well as her films, stage productions, bands, and more on her website DannieSnyder.com. She holds a Master’s from the University of Munich in American Studies and two Bachelor’s from George Mason University in Film & Video Studies and Theatre Studies with a Minor in Music. She is always learning, experimenting, trying, failing, growing, and sharing the theories and methodologies behind her work, ranging from Theatre of the Oppressed to intersectional feminism. For example, she is the co-host of the informative podcast on artivism called Re – Flect / Calibrate. As an interdisciplinary artivist, her aim is to foster dialogues and foster communities, to humbly serve as an artist matchmaker, fostering devised experimental collaborations between artists of every background. She is always creating and everything she does is creative, such as producing music videos and doing one-woman shows at conferences around the world. But her work focuses mostly on uplifting the voices of BIPOC and LGBTQ2+ artists, decentering whiteness and straight/cisgender stories.

 


 

Sponsored by:

 

Academy Center of the Arts

with Education Access Program Discounts Underwritten by

Register
Venue:
Lippard Room
Time:
April 5 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
$50
End Date:
April 26
Number of Classes/Day:
4 Wednesdays
Ages:
14 - Adult
Register by:
April 3
Instructor:
Dannie Synder