February 5 - February 26, 2026 |
| 21 Days to Your Screenplay Treatment With Bryan Young
Not only is a treatment a vital selling tool for screenwriters, the process of writing a treatment can help screenwriters lay a solid foundation for their screenplay that can save valuable time in the writing process. This is your chance to map out your plot and develop your characters before you’ve backed yourself into a corner with ninety pages of blood, sweat, and tears behind you. Let Script University show you, step-by-step, how to create an electrifying treatment!
We’ve made the anxiety-producing process of treatment writing simple with our ground-breaking approach to the form. By the end of this workshop, you will have a strong treatment and a solid log line for your screenplay that has been vetted by an industry professional. |
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February 12 - May 7, 2026 |
| Beginning Feature Film Writing: Complete Course With Donald H Hewitt
Whether you are a writer looking to understand the fundamentals of writing for film or a television writer looking to expand your skillset, Beginning Feature Film Writing has invaluable information to offer you. With new and more intense tests and assignments, this course has everything you need to succeed as a feature film writer. Using detailed analyses of successful scripts, you will discover how film writers maximize the impact of their work using compelling characters and scenes.
This 12-week course guides students through the process of building a feature film script, starting with an outline and continuing through all the acts of your screenplay. The writing critiques in this course are tailored to develop specific skills needed to succeed as a feature film writer. You will get expert guidance on your writing along the way, and helpful self-tests allow you to reinforce your mastery of the lecture content. |
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February 12 - March 12, 2026 |
| Writing the Series Bible: Developing Your TV Series With Lynn Grant Beck
It usually goes like this: the pilot is all that network execs are really interested in at first. That's because the pilot demonstrates basic writing and gives them a sense of where things will go (the season's "map" is built into any good pilot). But once they've decided they like a pilot, then they want to see more—your series bible, particularly the first season's sketch.
A strong series bible is a crucial sales tool for your series. This course will help you get your TV series ready for an executive by developing your series premise, honing your pilot, and writing your series bible.
Although not necessary, it would be helpful for students to have draft of their pilot or at least an outline before beginning this course. |
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"I loved the way this course was structured. The 'baby steps' to a completed series bible was a perfect way to build confidence and refine ideas along the way, while still coming away with a finished product." - Casey Lybbert |
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| "This was a very informative and well taught course. The notes, comments and suggestions by Lynn Grant Beck were tremendously informative." - Kevin La-Rose |
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February 19 - April 2, 2026 |
| Write Your Drama Pilot in Six Weeks With William Rabkin
Television pilot writing was once a carefully guarded inner sanctum limited almost exclusively to showbiz insiders. With the recent explosion of successful cable dramas and Internet viewing, it’s now possible for writers without a strong track record or network connections to get producers and executives to read and sometimes even buy their pilot scripts. If you sell a pilot, you’ve reached the pinnacle of TV writing success. It’s extremely satisfying to see your brainchild come to life on the screen, and it can lead to an extremely lucrative career in writing, production, or “show-running.”
In this course, you will learn the tools professional screenwriters use to finish high-quality scripts under deadlines. By the end of this course, you will have completed and received professional feedback on a script for your drama pilot. |
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February 26 - March 26, 2026 |
| Story Development and Outlining With Lynn Grant Beck
The most intelligent and intriguing premise in the world is only that—just a premise—until it’s been given a shape that draws an audience in and keeps its attention and investment. Until it’s given a protagonist through which the audience understands the premise in concrete terms, and feels the clearly-defined stakes, someone with whom they can identify and for whom they can cheer. In other words, until the premise has become a story.
This course will examine plotting a screenplay from premise to story. You'll learn how to take your screenplay from the early stages of building an idea to a full story, ways to structure the story to keep tension and investment high, and strategies to build not only structure but texture in the world of your film. |
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| "Excellent instructor! She has great tips and advice on keeping the story structured and developed. Highly recommend this class." - Dina Young |
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| "This course was both challenging and insightful. I learned a lot about what it takes to develop a series and hope to implement what I've learned." - Kenny Best |
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