One Year Intensive Program - Screenwriting (CZVF230008)
One-Year Intensive Screenwriting Program at the Prague based filmschool FAMU International invites up-and-coming writers to develop their storytelling skills in a creative, workshop-based environment. Designed for writers of film and television, the course combines hands-on exercises, theoretical classes, and one-to-one mentorship. Students discover how to craft compelling characters, develop dramatic structure, master dialogue, and transpose genre conventions to their writing. Through exercises in writing and feedback sessions, participants work through a number of short scripts and a final screenplay of up to 25 minutes. The curriculum also features seminars in aesthetic theory, critical studies, and film history that reinforce each author's creative development with solid contextual grounding. With small group and direct contact with experienced teachers, students receive individualised attention throughout the whole year. Upon completion of the One Year Intensive Program in Screenwriting, every student will have a professional writing portfolio, an official certificate and transcript with ECTS credits, and the confidence to pursue further study or to enter the screenwriting profession directly. Located at Prague's legendary FAMU, this course offers discipline and stimulus in one of Europe's capital cities.
| Forma studia | prezenční |
|---|---|
| Jazyk výuky | anglicky |
| Druh programu | Standardní kurz zájmový |
| Pracoviště zajišťující uskutečňování programu | FAMU International |
Garant studijního programu
Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ
Popis a cíle
The course aims to offer students the classes and exercises that will allow them to handle the basic principles of narration, dramaturgy, and storytelling that are vastly used in the writing of screenplays.
Students also get the exceptional opportunity to collaborate with fiction directors and animation students in writing their stories and screenplays.
The process is supported and completed with a set of mandatory theoretical courses and a range of electives courses.
Výsledky učení
One Year Intensive Program -Screenwriting (OYIP-S) Alumni possess a plentiful understanding of the basic principles of narration, dramaturgy and storytelling that are vastly used in the writing of screenplays.
Graduates hold a solid skillset for the short format such as:
•Developing a good idea into an actual story
•Creating compelling characters
•Designing engaging plots
•Estimate the right structure for the given story and plot.
•Writing a filmic dialog.
•Writing visually cinematic scenes.
•Incorporating a theme organically into the screenplay.
•Adapting materials from other mediums (literature, journalism, poetry). into a screenplay.
OYIP-S alumni have a good understanding of the fundamentals of TV writing and the specific narrative structures, character development techniques, and collaborative processes involved in writing for television.
OYIP-S graduates can collaborate in the writing process together with other screenwriters and/or directors.
OYIP-S alumni have developed analytical skills in order to detect dramaturgical virtues and flaws in existing screenplays and films.
Předpoklady uchazeče
A maximum of 6 students per mentor workshop is accepted.
The OYIP-S is aimed at students who have at least finished high school education and have gained a minimum of practical experience with any form or genre in writing. It is a very well suited program for those who want to get an intensive and hands-on experience with the writing for the screen craft in its diverse formats, genres and styles, which would allow them to be accepted for higher education degrees (Bachelor's, Master's) on dramatic writing or filmmaking.
Screenwriting mentors carefully evaluate the applications from all prospect students and make admission decisions based on the quality of those materials, with an approximate minimum of 3 students and a maximum of 6 students per each mentor workshop.
Podmínky absolování
For completion of the course students must:
1) Execute and complete the exercises and projects from the mentor workshop within the time defined by the study plan.
2) Attend and pass all mandatory theory classes.
3) Accumulate a minimum of 60 ECTS credits via electives courses and modules.