Visual Screenwriting and Cinematic Storytelling

2 hours Evening session - 6.30pm to 8.30pm Part-time

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Visual Screenwriting and Cinematic Storytelling

Content Tabs

This course is a combination of interactive teaching and practical exercises. 

You will be asked to try out each technique as it is taught and may ask as many questions as you like during the session – being actively encouraged to contribute to discussions.



In the film industry “a picture is worth a thousand words”

Writers who cannot tell a story visually cannot expect to survive in modern independent cinema. They will also find it increasingly difficult to make progress in television. The days when the only skill a screenwriter needed was the ability to write good dialogue are over.

Cinema and television are the world’s most powerful storytelling mediums precisely because visual storytelling is so compelling. Every second of a film contains thousands of pieces of visual information, which the audience use to understand the story. When combined with audio (dialogue, music, sound effects), cinematic storytelling is totally absorbing and immersive.

This fact, that cinema works precisely because it is visual, presents a genuine challenge to every screenwriter. How can we write scripts that adequately tell the story (visually) without writing a thousand words for each moment?



This is one of the greatest technical challenges facing modern Screenwriters.