Screenwriting for feature film

City Lit

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Description

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

A practical introduction to writing cinema screenplays.

"The Tutor: Sharmila Chauhan is a screenwriter, playwright and prose writer. Her plays include: The Husbands, which toured nationally and completed its run at London’s Soho Theatre (Kali and Pentabus Theatre), Born Again/Purnajanam (Kali Theatre, Jan 2012) and 10 Women (Avignon Festival, France, 2014). She has had two short films produced and written two features. Most recently, her short film Oysters was commissioned by Film London (2016) and her feature Mother Land is currently being developed by Cinestan International and has been long-listed for the Sundance Writers’ Lab.


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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Respond to and use screenwriting jargon
- Apply the basic principles of screen/scriptwriting
- Appreciate the differences in writing for different media
- Develop story-telling techniques
- Present a script in standard industry format
- Structure a script.

Please bring notebook and pens.

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Subjects

  • Writing
  • Screenwriting
  • Theatre

Course programme

- Deciding what to write - generating ideas
- Formatting, presentation, accepted norms
- Genre & theme
- Approaches to structure for film
- Creating believable characters
- Approaching dialogue
- Plot development, pacing, set ups and payoffs
- Differences in writing between different media
- An introduction into how the industry works.

Through discussion, presentations, viewing of film and TV extracts and use of the internet. Also exercises both during and outside the class evaluated by tutor and peers. All writing courses at City Lit will involve an element of workshop. This means that students will produce work which will be discussed in an open and constructive environment with the tutor and other students. The college operates a policy of constructive criticism, and all feedback on another student’s work by the tutor and other students should be delivered in that spirit. For classes longer than one day regular reading and writing exercises will be set for completion at home to set deadlines.

Additional information

You may wish to consider Developing your screenwriting if you have a first draft to work on. We also have a number of one-day courses at the weekend on specific genres. All students are invited to join us at City Lit Talks Back, our monthly performance night for City Lit writers. Everyone is welcome, admission is free and there's no need to book in advance. Visit for more details or if you're interested in reading your work. Students are also encouraged to submit to Between the Lines, our annual anthology. Learn more at For the latest news, courses and events, stay in touch with the Department on Facebook and Twitter. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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