More great classes from Miami Light Project. It’s so good that we have organizations like this here to provide these kinds of opportunities.

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Screenwriting and Directing Workshops – Register Now!

Are you looking to enhance your screenwriting know-how and polish your writing skills? Do you want to know how to direct and produce a movie? These workshops are for you!

Created and taught by writer and filmmaker Harriette Yahr, these workshops cover the basics of screenwriting in Part 1, plus more advanced concepts in Part 2. A new Filmmaking/Directing Weekend Workshop will teach you everything you need to know to make a movie.

Screenwriting topics covered include:
* story structure
* character
* tone
* dialogue
* visual storytelling
* industry standard script formatting

We will also touch on the business of screenwriting and the steps involved in moving your script into production. Part 2 will “Dig Deeper” and include a special event. Appropriate for fiction and documentary writers working in film, video, and television. Appropriate for novelists, journalists, and playwriters and all levels of writers.

Filmmaking/Directing Workshop will cover:
Proper “Shooting Script” format. An overview of “Script Breakdown” and Budgeting/Scheduling. For the Director: Creating Storyboards, Shot Lists, determining “Coverage.” Understanding shot choices, the language of Cinematography, working with your Art Director, Assistant Director, Wardrobe Stylists, Script Supervisor, and Editor.

To make the most of our class time, you will be given homework assignments during the week, and we will utilize the web for some materials. You will be given personal feedback on your work. Weekend Workshops are intensives that will include instructor follow up (screenwriting), and a class field trip (filmmaking/directing).
Class size is very limited – 14 Max!

Screenwriting Workshop 101 – Screenplay Basics
Wednesdays 5:45pm – 8:45pm August 26, Sept 2, Sept 9, 16
Sundays 10 am-2:45 pm August 23, 30, Sept 6

Screenwriting Workshop 201 – Digging Deeper
Saturdays 10am-2:45pm August 22, 29, Sept 5

Weekend Intensive Screenwriting
Saturday/Sunday 10-5 September 12/13, 2009

Weekend Intensive Filmmaking/Directing
Saturday/Sunday 10-5 September 26/27, 2009

Please see www.MiamiFilmWorkshops.com for complete info or call 310-712-1293.

Class Location: The Light Box at Miami Light Project
3000 Biscayne Blvd #100, Miami, FL 33137.

To Register: Email classes@yahrfilms.com with SCREENWRITING COURSE in the subject line.

DUE TO LIMITED CLASS SIZE, a $75.00 deposit reserves your spot. Full Payment due one week before classes. Checks, Credit Cards/Paypal accepted.

“I had attended many screenwriting workshops in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and even London so when a workshop was finally offered in my home town of Miami I thought ‘I can’t take another class! What could I get out of it that I haven’t gotten from all the rest?’ I was wrong. Harriette Yahr’s expertise and great skill as a teacher presented crucial material the other courses somehow overlooked and the intimate size of this class allows for one on one guidance on writing assignments.”
-Lissette Decos, former Screenwriting 101 student

Special Thanks to Miami Light Project, Cinevisun, Miami World Cinema Center, Tigertail Productions, Jeff Peel and the Miami-Dade Office of Film and Television, Dana Keith, and Rhonda Mitrani.

Email classes@yahrfilms.com to get on mailing list for future writing and production workshops.

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