Screenwriting Essentials: Create, Write, and Develop for TV
What Will We Do in This Course?
A course by HaJ , Screenwriter, Producer, Director, and Performer
About the video: What Will We Do in This Course?
Overview
“Learn about what you can expect in this incredible screenwriting course, including how to take an inkling of an idea and expand it into the foundation for a sustainable television series that will engage audiences. In addition, you will learn how to tackle writer’s block, organize and structure your ideas to create an outline and how to write and finish your first own TV script.”
In this video lesson HaJ addresses the topic: What Will We Do in This Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Screenwriting Essentials: Create, Write, and Develop for TV. Learn to write thought-provoking scripts with an authentic voice, strong characters, and exciting conflicts.
Partial transcription of the video
“What Will We Do in This Course? In this lesson, I'm gonna be sharing with you what we will be doing together in this course. One of the reasons why I decided to become a TV writing coach is that I would meet so many new writers that would have a great idea for a TV show, but no follow-through, and I could empathize with this. I very much wanted to write a TV script, but I didn't know how. I would start so many ideas and never finish them. Eventually, I got frustrated enough to decide to create a repeatable process, so that I could move forward and share this with other new writers. 1. Estab...”
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Course summary for: Screenwriting Essentials: Create, Write, and Develop for TV
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Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, Writing
HaJ
A course by HaJ
HaJ is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, director, performer, and part-time rapper from Brooklyn. Growing up in a creative household meant she was exposed to storytelling from a young age, something which she explored through her studies at LaGuardia Performing Arts High School in New York. During that time, she was nominated for a 1995 Emmy Award for a project she worked on to raise awareness around voting and gun violence. She later went on to hone her acting and storytelling skills at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
HaJ has created, written, produced, licensed, and sold content to networks and studios including ABC, CBS, VH1, and Disney. Her work has appeared in festivals including The New York Television Festival, IFP Film Week, and SeriesFest. She also created and starred in an Off-Broadway show that won her a ‘Best Writer’ Award and has had her work recognized by The New York Times, NPR, and Rolling Out.
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