Your Screenwriting Education is only the beginning.

From birth we are a learning machine. We use our senses to absorb everything around us. Screenwriting Education is no different. Not only do we learn from formal classes and seminars but also from life itself.

It starts with a vision in our imagination. This translates down to the written word. Whether dialogue or description these written words play out in our imaginative scene, FADE IN.

View Website Video Introduction Even before we enter school we are taught how to communicate. More formal methods of communication develop through our school years. Screenwriting Education is another form of communicating. As I have said before, we are telling a story through the eye of a camera.

Telling a story through the eye of a camera is also a process. A process we nourish by creative writing classes, script writing classes or seminars. There we are taught structure and form.

I remember my first script. Thought I had a good story. So I just started writing. It didn't take long before I realized, I had no idea of spacing, character name location or where description and dialogue started or stopped. I didn't have a clue. But hey, I went to lots of movies. So, I'll just make it look clean. Needless to say, I really needed to learn structure and formatting.

With the many classes and seminars I attended over the years, I found that most of the instructors were more than very capable to teach structure, form and proper formatting. The good ones however didn't try to teach me how to be creative but instead tried to show me ways to unlock or expand my own creativity. So yes, they helped with "allowing imagination to run amok."

So after several classes and seminars on script writing, I felt better prepared to put my imagination into the correct format. I also discovered there were companies selling scripts of produced films. Even ones that had become Blockbusters.

So why not read a produced script? See how the writer found their voice. How their words translated through the eye of a camera. So I purchased a few scripts of movies I had already seen. Thinking that would make it easier to see how the script flowed to the screen. Of course, you can't purchase the final shooting script but hey I was reading a produced script.

So my Screenwriting Education was growing. Growing from the formal script writing classes and seminars. Reading produced scripts and let's not forget, life itself. Like I said earlier, it's a process. The process and maybe even progress of education coupled with the process and hopefully the progress of life.

Simply put, you can't get too much Screenwriting Education or quite frankly any education. Never stop learning. Never stop seeing your imagination through the eye of a camera. Equally important, never stop writing.

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