film, video & TV training | professional development

Discipline/s:	writing & directing
Level:	Intermediate
Course code	SI310
Date/s & times:	Aug 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; Sept 7, 14 (6:15pm - 9:15pm)
Contact hours:	21
Places:	8
Fee:	$335 OC members  / $400 non members (Membership: $55 / $40 concession - join Open Channel here)
Prerequisites:	Basic English literacy necessary. Beneficial to bring your ideas for film stories to the first session.

Get inspired, share your ideas and work with a professional screenwriter. Learn to craft your ideas into a strong narrative with this practical writing workshop.

In seven weeks, you'll learn how to: develop your story into a compelling narrative with vivid characters, dynamic action and interactive locations; write believable dialogue; construct story form and structure; and format and draft your script to industry standards. Exercises in concept development, structuring a narrative and writing dialogue will inspire you to write, write, write!

Who should do this course?
Suitable for beginners and those with some experience in writing and want a deadline and script editing support to complete a script.

Where can I go after this course?
Complete (or be well on the way to completing) your first film script. Scripts may be submitted for production within the Open Channel training production slate. Graduates are encouraged to apply for our Advanced Diploma professional screenwriting courses, Concept to Script Narrative Screenwriting or Factual, Corporate and Commercial Copy Writing.

Are you interested in being Accredited for this course?
Read about Accreditation Options on Short Courses

How do I Enrol?
Simply print an Enrolment Form and return to us with payment to secure a place in the Short Course. See the Enrolment Form for details on how to pay.
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

Graeme Farmer
Graeme has been a script editor, script writer and story editor for over thirty years, working across most genres – THE FLYING DOCTORS, THE FEDS, STATE CORONER, THE VIOLENT EARTH etc. Recently, Graeme has written for Moody Street Kids, K9 (Limelight/Channel 10) and THE SADDLE CLUB (Crawfords/Channel 9) and been script editor on DIRT GAME (ABC) and THE ELEPHANT PRINCESS (Jonathan Shiff/Channel 10). He has taught and mentored for AFTRS, Swinburne, Victoria College of the Arts and in RMIT's screenwriting program. He was also mentor for Film Victoria's First Screenwriter's Initiative.

Graeme has won three Awgie awards: for HOME (ABC) 1983; DARLINGS OF THE GODS (Simpson Le Mesurier) 1988; and the Awgie for Script Editing 1993.

Past Tutors

Coral Drouyn
Coral Drouyn is an AWGIE and Australian Film Commission (AFC) Fellowship winner and one of Australia’s most experienced television writers and script editors. She has over 900 hours of television credits including script producer roles with Blue Heelers, Prisoner and Home and Away among many others. She has taught various screenwriting courses for the Australian Writers' Guild and Bond University. Coral is also the author of Big Screen/Small Screen and a new book So You Really Want to be a Writer?
This course includes guest speaker Jan Sardi (Shine, Mao's Last Dancer) in conversation with Coral Drouyn.