Screenwriting Essentials: Create, Write, and Develop for TV
How Do You Know if Your Idea Is Good for TV?
A course by HaJ , Screenwriter, Producer, Director, and Performer
About the video: How Do You Know if Your Idea Is Good for TV?
Overview
“Learn one of the most important elements to creating an entertaining and sustainable television series. Tap into your humanity reason for creating and writing your own television show.”
In this video lesson HaJ addresses the topic: How Do You Know if Your Idea Is Good for TV?, 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
“How Do You Know if Your Idea Is Good for TV? In this lesson, I'm going to share with you how to know if your idea is good for television. Come with me while I show you how to identify your central theme. It's time to think about your central theme. Every great TV show has one. Remember when we talked about your universal why for you wanting to write your script? The central theme is like creating a universal why for your characters within the world that you are creating for them. Examples of central themes can include love, family, redemption, honor, feeling out of place, justice or even in...”
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Course summary for: Screenwriting Essentials: Create, Write, and Develop for TV
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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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