Although this comes at the end of the Toolkit practice, this is really, what we are here for. This 40-phase workbook can help build your screenplay, using prompts to find out if your characters and story work - together. A progressive detailed interactive process from before the beginning - through middle - to after the end… and back again. The Scriptspine can be used as creative tool and an analytic aid.

Establishing the validity of your 5 character types with the Toolkit’s 8-point identification grid and examining your Character Triangulation matrices.

Determining your characters’ positive/negative emotions and their dominant or subsidiary behavioural traits.

Deepening and driving your characters through Scriptwrite’s 4-fold progression exercise of Desires, Needs, Goals and Outcomes.

You can also check out our 200-point Character Inventory to determine what archetypal energies and traits are essential for your characters… and there’s more…

Scriptwrite aims to promote script-writing excellence, cine literacy and the heritage of cinema for both the independent and professional, whether you are an investor, an executive, a technician, a writer, producer, director or passionate enthusiast. Although talent may well be in our nature, scriptwriting craft is something we can learn, acquire and nurture; this mastery of craft can increase our talent ability.

Whether we entertain the brothers Wachowski or Dardenne, films worthy of our attention do not simply import literary, televisual, theatrical, music promos or art based media conventions or sensibilities, nor follow rigid structures or formulas, but envision authentic movie-kinetic stories with universal appeal. If we are to maintain and advance the story of cinema, we need to appreciate and know how to fully read, realize and write authentic, coherent scripts and feature films.

Creativity, craft and our innate sensibility can compose greatness or mediocrity, depth or superficiality, meaningful exchange or meaningless banter, growth or stasis, dullness or something remarkable. Our creative mission is to master the craft, dig deep within ourselves, and others, study dramatic exchange and its implications, and understand how screen stories are fostered, nurtured, created and driven.

The Scritpwrite path is neither exhaustive nor definitive but an attempt to cover a complex of areas associated with screenplay writing and movie comprehension. The Scriptwrite process aims to provide a progressive + comprehensive scriptwriting route-map and can be employed as a tool for creative development and a platform for assessment, redaction and rewrites. Scriptwrite is for projects, (features and shorts), at varying levels of development and completion and can be used to inspire the entry-level aspirant, first time screenwriter or the professionally engaged screenwriting practitioner. Whether you are about to write, are in the process of writing and or have completed writing your movie script, Scriptwrite is designed to enable the newcomer, independent maverick or mainstreamer to participate at their appropriate talent level.

 

Both Manual and Toolkit are being developed as a CD Rom and as a modular internet download.

Scriptwrite is a hands’ on operation utilizing the knowledge of facilitator Chris Knowles. Chris has over 40 years experience with movies and in the film industry. As a youth, he was immersed in the world of film collectors, film historians and cineastes. After graduating in film, he spent 15 years treading hot coals in international feature production (Aliens, Greystoke, A Fish Called Wanda etc). 10 years as an independent filmmaker, screenwriter, script and production adviser, shadowed his work as a film researcher in the museum + archive sector and as a film and media lecturer and screen agency manager. Chris’s unique talent combination brings together diverse perspectives to help enhance learning and develop feature scripts and movie projects.

The Script Advisory Service (SAS) is available as a feedback and report service. Email or hardcopy (+SAE) your queries with your short, outline/treatment or feature script. A short costs £30, treatment or outline £50 and a feature is £120.

You can then further participate by attending one of the workshops (Option 2) or B2B or 121 (Option 3). All in deals are available for both feedback and workshop attendance with the same project.

A Workshop includes the Scriptwrite Movie Manual, Toolkit and Scriptspine.
1-day script-blitz Standard £75.00. Bring a friend - 2 for £125.00
Weekend (2 day) script-blitz Standard £125.000 Bring a friend - 2 for £200.00
5 day workshop intensive £500.00 Bring a friend - 2 for £800.00

You do not need to have submitted a script to the ‘feedback and report service’ to attend a workshop. If you bring 10 workshop participants for any one event - you get to pick from the freebie bag – the winner attends for free!

Entry level - first timers, beginners and crossovers from another discipline. You are unfamiliar with the rigorous requirements of writing for movies, are not confident with the feature film form and structure, but you have written a few shorts, or an outline, or treatment or even an idea, or maybe you just want to learn more about movies and want to enjoy the workshop experience.

The Intermediate stage. You have already written a treatment or outline, are perhaps writing the script, or you think you have completed your scenario and now you need some feedback and analysis to develop, deepen, assess and advance your work.

You are already familiar with the scriptwriting process. You have a script(s) completed and need assessment and check-listing. You maybe an individual or a production company in development and need craft and creative input for amendments and change.