Film School
Free screenwriting lessons: format and the page, story structure, character, dialogue and subtext, scene craft, visual storytelling, genre and rewriting.
- Format & the PageBefore a single frame is shot, your screenplay is the film. Its format is not decoration. It is a production instrument, tuned over a century so that a…
- Story StructureA pile of vivid scenes is not yet a story. Structure is the craft of turning events into consequences, so that by the last page your reader feels the ending…
- Character & MotivationAn audience does not fall for who your character claims to be. They fall for what your character does when the ground gives way, and motivation is the…
- Dialogue & SubtextActors can only play what a line lets them hide. The words on your page are the surface; the scene lives in the space beneath them, and learning to write…
- Scene CraftA screenplay is not a story you narrate; it is a chain of scenes that happen in front of us. Master the single scene and you master the medium, because a…
- Visual StorytellingA camera cannot photograph a feeling. It can only photograph what a feeling makes someone do. Every technique in this module grows out of that single…
- Genre & ToneA reader knows what your script is before they finish page one, because genre has already made them a set of promises. Tone is how you keep those promises…
- Rewriting & CoverageA first draft only proves the story exists. The rewrite is where you earn a stranger's attention — the reader who owes you nothing and quits at the first…