film, video & TV training | professional development

Discipline/s:	writing & directing
Level:	Advanced
Course code Date/s & times:	Saturday 25 Feb to Saturday 9 June plus Saturday 7 July (9.30 am - 4.30 pm)
Contact hours:	102 plus script edit (post-course)
Places:	10
Fee:	$1,230 Open Channel Members / $1,500 Non Members (Membership: $55 / $44 concession - join Open Channel here) $270 (Victorian Training Guarantee) This option is available only to those undertaking the course as an entry point to the Advanced Diploma of Screen & Media (Features and TV Series Development)
Prerequisites:	Applicants should have completed Screenwriting Introduction, or have scriptwriting experience, plus a concept in development.

 

Concept to Script is an intense, collaborative workshop designed to help students develop a commercially viable screenplay. Turn your concept for a feature, short, telemovie or series into a completed draft script that will attract market and development interest.

Let your idea be guided in a collaborative, protected, workshop environment, and:

• Find your structure
• Build character profiles and improve characterisation
• Work collaboratively with other writers
• Write an outline and 30 pages of script
• Script edit and write coverage
• Read a screenplay
• Write for budget
  

The course also includes a range of other industry guest speakers. Participate in other activities to inform and develop your script including:

• Workshop your script with actors
• Pitch your project to industry and learn the business of being a screenwriter

"It is so important for us as a culture to develop great Australian stories that entertain as well as enlighten. Congratulations must go to Open Channel for having the foresight to run such a course which I think is the only one of its kind running in Australia." Marilyn Tofler, previous tutor.

Who should do this course?
Concept to Script is aimed at new writers who wish to pursue a professional career in screenwriting and/or directing film and television drama, and offers the opportunity to develop and write a treatment/script over a 5 month-period supported by industry professionals.

Where can I go after this course?
Graduates will continue developing a feature screenplay or television series commenced in the course.

Are you interested in being Accredited for this course?
There are two ways to gain accreditation for this course. 1. You can apply to training@openchannel.org.au during or upon completion of the course.
2. This course provides an entry point to the Advanced Diploma of Screen & Media (Features and TV Series Development) for those who do not have the prerequisite first draft screenplay. You can gain accreditation by applying for the Advanced Diploma during or upon completion of Concept to Script. Contact training@openchannel.org.au for more information.

How do I Enrol?
Application for this course includes two stages.

Stage One: Please submit:
a) 1-2 paragraph synopsis of a film project by email to training@openchannel.org.au
b) Attach to this email a signed copy of the Unsolicited Submissions Agreement

Stage Two: Your concept will be evaluated, and you will then be required to complete EITHER a short course enrolment form (course code: C2S) or an application form for the Advanced Diploma of Screen & Media (Features and TV Series Development).
Short Courses Application Form (pdf)

If you wish to enrol in this course as part of a full Certificate III in Media / Advanced Diploma of Screen and Media, with up-front payment, click here.

Tutor

ROBERT GREENBERG
Robert is an award-winning Screenwriter and Script Editor. He has written and script edited hundreds of hours of television including episodes of Round the Twist (for which he won an AWGIE and three AFI-awards). He has also served as a Script Development Manager at Film Victoria, as well as a feature film and TV series script assessor and has been a judge for the Emmy Awards. Robert's students include Cannes Film Festival award winners and screenwriters who have worked on Underbelly and the BBC.

Past tutors for this course have included leading screenwriters/script assessors such as Riwia Brown (Once Were Warriors, Flight of the Albatross, Script Assessor NZFC), Marilyn Tofler (Whatever Happened to that Guy?) and Paul Kooperman (Wil, Home & Away).