Scriptwriting Lectures by Volodymyr Hromov 2020
Description of the course
An intensive theoretical course by one of the best script doctors in Eastern Europe. Volodymyr Hromov was educated at VGIK. Taught at VGIK, Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors, Kyiv National Karpenko-Kary University of Theater, Film, and Television, among others. He worked as the editor-in-chief at FILM.UA.
Start of the course
February 4, 2020
Goal of the course
To provide the participants with all the tools they need to work on their own script.
Duration
2 weeks (2 lecture blocks of 3 classes lasting 4 hours each).
Classes are held on February 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 from 18:00 to 22:00 (with breaks).
Address
HUB.4.0 (1/3 Yaroslavskyi alley, Kyiv)
Cost of the course
5000 UAH*
Lecturer of the course
The lecturer and creator of the course is screenwriter, script editor, and script doctor Volodymyr Hromov.
Graduated from the screenwriting faculty of VGIK. He taught at VDIK, Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors, Latvian Academy of Culture, among others. He has been living in Warsaw for the past few years.
From the very beginning of his studies, he was engaged in writing scripts for film and television. The TV movie Cityscape and the TV series Version were based on his script. Volodymyr is the co-author of the screenplay of Aleksandr Shein’s film VMayakovsky, which was released in 2018.
Since 2015, he regularly writes about Polish cinema for the website culture.pl, dedicated to the life and culture of Poland.
“For me, dramaturgy is a view of the world, a way of life, a language. Having studied it properly, you will see stories, plots, discover the drama in yourself. And truly interesting scripts begin when we talk about our own, about personal things, about what we learned, lived, and felt. Without an interesting script, there will be no film. My course is a story about how a script develops, what components it has, it is an attempt to explain how a screenwriter should think and what mistakes he should avoid. After listening to my lectures, you will receive all the necessary tools to work on your own story.”
Volodymyr Hromov, lecturer and creator of the course
Program of the course
Block One
Day one (why do you need a script?)
Why does a film need a script? How it is created and what it looks like.
How to correctly describe the future film? Ways and options.
What does the word look like in the script? A story about dialogues and language.
Day Two (script architecture)
Ways to build the dramaturgy of the scene and the entire story. Something about the details.
How to tell a story correctly? The architecture of the script, its construction.
The structure and its sections (something about frames, scenes, and episodes)
Day three (laws of drama)
How to properly develop a story? Difficulties and errors.
Construction of the plot. Features. Parts of the plot (Exposition. Collision. Starting point. Vicissitudes. Climax. Resolution). Something about Aristotle and American theorists.
Block Two
Day One (what drives the plot)
Why is history divided to plotlines and how to make them?
What is a story? Something about plot motifs and archetypes.
What is a plot?
Day two (conflict)
Why doesn’t story exist without conflict?
What are internal conflict and external conflict.
Dramatic, narrative, and lyrical type of conflict.
Day three (protagonist and idea)
Who is the protagonist of the script? What changes in him/her, and what remains unchanged.
How to work with the characters of the script, how many there should be, what to pay attention to.
A little about the genre. Features of the genre. Genre as the creator’s point of view on events.
The idea of the script as the most important thing.
The number of places in the group is limited, register now!
*discount for Terrarium members