Beyond Structure With David Freeman | Scriptwriting

“Beyond Structure” is the most popular screenwriting workshop in Los Angeles, and this is David’s only U.K. appearance this year.

Tutor:	David Freeman	Venue:	Apollo Cinema Piccadilly Circus, 19 Lower Regent Street London SW1Y 4LR
Date:	TBA	Duration:	2 day weekend
Time:	9:30am - 6:30pm	Price:	£250 + 17.5% VAT

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David Freeman will not be able to fly over to London due to the massive transport disruptions in Europe and the closed airspace above the UK. Beyond Structure will therefore be rescheduled on 26/27 June.

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The 200 powerful techniques taught in Beyond Structure will advance the experienced screenwriter, fiction writer, or development exec to the next level, and shave years off a beginner's learning curve. The use of film clips, together with hands-on, in-class writing exercises give you practice and confidence in all these new skills.

Additionally, each student will receive an extensive,100-page handout pack filled with valuable writing tools. For some examples of David’s techniques, click below to download a word document.

While there’s quite of information about David and the workshop below, you can find even more on his home website: http://www.beyondstructure.com

About This Course

DAY ONE
100 Techniques For Making Characters and Dialogue Stand Out

Learn and practice techniques to:

Create Riveting, 3-Dimensional Characters

10 techniques for crafting unique, psychologically complex characters.
38 kinds of character growth for heroes.
36 ways to make leading characters likable without making them bland.
How to create characters who aren't limited to real people you've met.
25 types of character quirks and eccentricities.
37 techniques for giving characters depth.
11 ways to show character development in stages.
Techniques to create interesting villains.

Write Luminous Dialogue

How to give each character their own distinctive voice.
5 ways to express a characters dimensionality in dialogue.
14 techniques to capture the rhythm and sound of conversation.
4 ways to inject depth or subtext into dialogue.
Advanced Dialogue Techniques.
The ultimate dialogue challenge.
6 techniques for revealing ambivalence in dialogue.

DAY TWO
100 Techniques For Creating Compelling Plots and Scenes And How to Write or Develop What Sells.

Learn and practice techniques to:

Invent Great Premises

8 techniques for generating fresh story ideas.
11 ways of modifying ideas to develop radically alternative story-lines.

Develop These Premises Into Imaginative Plots

70 types of plot twists.
35 possible objectives for your hero.

Using plot to shape characters emotional growth

5 additional ways to relate character growth to the plot.

Learn the most efficient way to brainstorm a story from
beginning to end.

Create Memorable Scenes

Scene Sculpting

Ways to make scenes interesting and emotionally layered.

The Marketplace Guidelines for Hollywood vs. independent films.
Learn to use the brainstorming computer to improve your pitches.

Screenwriters, novelists, storytellers, directors and producers seeking a greater understanding of the elements of great screenwriting.

Working as a writer and producer, David Freeman has written and developed scripts and other properties which have been bought or optioned by Columbia Pictures, MGM, Paramount, Castle Rock, Buena Vista Television, Atlas Entertainment, Hearst Entertainment, and many other major film and television production companies. He's a long-standing member of the Writers Guild of America.

The workshop has been taken by Writers, Directors, Producers, Stars, and Key Creative Executives behind: Minority Report, Good Will Hunting, The Fugitive, E.R., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, The X-Files, Total Recall, Face/Off, 12 Monkeys, King of the Hill

Wow - What a difference you've made to my writing.
It is unbelievable. I'm writing like I never thought I would write - I look at my works since taking your “Beyond Structure” class in London in April this year and I'm blown away.

Thanks!
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"David Freeman has broken down the craft and art of screenwriting into its building blocks -- a periodic table of highly effective techniques that the masters have been using and which now anyone can learn. He can even take a difficult subject like how to add emotional layers and depth to a scene or script and show exactly how it's done. I don't think this information is available anywhere else."

Gary Goldman
Executive Producer and uncredited Co-Writer: MINORITY REPORT; Co-writer: TOTAL RECALL; currently writing THE END OF ETERNITY for Columbia Pictures and director Ridley Scott.

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"David Freeman's strategy is excellent: If you want to write like the masters of film and television, use their techniques. You can spend ten years of your life studying, compiling, and inventing those techniques, like David did -- or you could attend his weekend "BEYOND STRUCTURE" Workshop. I've tried both, but I recommend the latter."

Joe Reinkemeyer
Writer: LAW & ORDER; BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER; L.A. LAW.

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"How do you tell a story? Even more? How do you tell a story that will mean more to an audience than a collection of beats laid out on a page? How do you work from inside, and is there a technique for digging deeper? These are the questions Dave Freeman asks, and they're also the questions he answers. His class will give you tools to make your own work richer."

Richard Kramer
Consulting Producer: ONCE AND AGAIN; Producer, writer, director of the Emmy-award-winning series THIRTYSOMETHING. Peabody Award winner: writer, producer of the first TALES OF THE CITY, and for executive producing NOTHING SACRED. Producer, writer of the HBO film: IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK.

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"When I took David's class, I had just finished a first pass at a very challenging feature adaptation I had been hired to write. In David's workshop. I found powerful techniques, clearly presented, that I could immediately use to make my characters' emotional arcs more defined and which allowed the script to operate on more profound levels. These techniques are just as applicable to my television writing. David's techniques for increasing a writer's artistry are fresh, exciting, and immensely practical."

Jan Oxenburg
Writer: COLD CASE, ROBBERY HOMICIDE DIVISION, Supervising Producer: THE EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD; Producer: ONCE AND AGAIN; Former Co producer: CHICAGO HOPE; Recently finished writing a feature for Robert Greenwald Productions based on James Ellroy's memoir: MY DARK PLACES; Theatrical Feature: THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT; Former Executive Story Editor: NOTHING SACRED; Former Story Editor: RELATIVITY.

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"Using something akin to the Vulcan mind meld, David has probed into the minds of Hollywood's master writers and identified all of their techniques. But the even greater feat is how David manages to articulate thee techniques better than the masters themselves. This seminar is a must."

Evan Somers
Former staff writer: STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE; writer of episodes: STAR TREK: VOYAGER

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"Although I took David Freeman's class with the intention of expanding my skills for feature film writing, I found the Story Brainstorming Techniques and the Dialogue Techniques highly applicable to the half-hour comedy writing that I do everyday. Part of my work involves creating and writing pilots, and in this regard I especially liked his "Character Diamond" Technique. It is simple to use and creates strong, identifiable characters., and I will be using it for all my pilot development from now on."

Ellen Sandler
Credits include: Co-executive Producer/Writer: EVERYONE LOVES RAYMOND; Producer/Writer: COACH; Creator/Co-Executive Producer: CASS (pilot starring Kathy Baker); Creator/Executive Producer: KATEY (CBS pilot starring Katey Sagal)

"The exciting tools David offers have vast application for any director. His many specific techniques, from adding depth to a scene to ways of making characters more layered and dimensional, translate straight into the art of directing. Directors are in for a big creative boost when they take David's class."

William Dear
Director: ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD, HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS, WILD AMERICA

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"What David does is unique, lucid and generous. He shows you how to sculpt, deepen, and enliven a script, and even how to have fun in writing it. He has conceptualized writing systems and tools that will empower both the veteran and novice to achieve deeper depths and higher heights in their writing. He is funny and charismatic; he's also a successful working writer. I will be using the tools he has passed on for years. "

JEFFREY D. BROWN
Emmy-award winning director: THE WONDER YEARS. Co-writer, co- producer, DREAM WITH THE FISHES (Sony Classics). Executive Producer, MOON (Paramount).