Terrarium. Intensive 2019. Kyiv

Description of the course

The course will be based on theoretical and practical classes. The ratio of theory and practice is 30/70. During the three-month course, participants must write practical assignments after listening to the lecturers. Each block will have several practical script tasks for participants.

Practical classes are based on the program course, each of the participants must complete a certain number of tasks. Practical classes last longer than lectures, which in turn include a live discussion between the lecturer and the course participants. Within each block, each of the lecturers must provide a new task to perform.

‘Tools’ (a universal means of acquiring any skills, not as a rule, but as a means to achieve goals). Therefore, all classes will be help in spirit of acquiring new ‘tools’ through structural analysis and implementation of practical tasks. The work will be carried out on the principle of script-doctoring: each of the participants will receive analysis and individual examples based directly on their projects to improve their ‘tools’. Thus, each of the participants will be able to develop independently, according to their professional level.

The program

1. Structure of the script. Empathy and experience. Where to get the basis for a script. Logline. Synopsis. Treatment. Scene. Episode.

2. Turning points. Event. Obstacle.

3. Character (Development, motivation, psychotypes. Characteristics. Biography.)

4. Plot in painting.

5. Adaptation of a literary work.

6. Dialogue in the cinema.

7. Reflective cinema (Why it is important to “talk” about reality here and now)

8. Suspense and emotion. Methods of influencing the viewer. Maksym Kurochkin

9. How to pitch your story. Oleksandra Kostina

10. “Analysis” of the text with an actor. Rymma Ziubina

11. Script Consultations. Monika Franczak

12. Script readings. Analysis of scripts with actors.

13. Project pitching.