How to Write Your First Screenplay; helping new writers take an idea to a finished script

How to Write Your First Screenplay is a self-paced course for people who’ve built a career and now have a story they want to write. Twelve steps take you from an idea to everything a writer has in hand before page one: a logline, a synopsis, a character breakdown, world and location notes, a beat sheet and a scene outline. It works for a short film, a feature or a TV pilot. Each step asks questions. You write the answers. Nothing in it writes a word for you. We believe the imagining has to be yours. Included: the How to Write Your First Screenplay workbook, a file that opens in your web browser and saves as you type, plus a printable worksheet for every step, a short, feature or pilot flowchart, a length card with festival and competition figures, and printable scene cards. The workbook compiles your answers into one printable packet at the end. Self-paced, at your own speed. There are no videos, no live sessions and nobody reading your pages. When you have a draft you’d shoot, the next documents are a breakdown, a budget and a schedule, and that’s the work Goldsmith Production Services does.