Screenwriting: Find Your Voice with Ben Blaine

Impactful screenplays have a clear and personal authorial voice, yet most screenwriting advice tends to bend your ideas to fit someone else's shape. This 8 week course will seek to demystify the screenwriting process both creatively and commercially and will show you how genre rules, structural constraint and even a producer’s mad and inconsistent notes can all be used not just to improve your writing but to better capture what makes your writing unique.

Any level of experience is welcomed, whether you are a newcomer with a passion or a pro stuck in a rut, this course will provide you with a set of tools that will help you more quickly understand what your story is and how best to frame it for the producers, directors, actors and audiences you want to fall in love with it.

Ben Blaine is one half of the Blaine Brothers, an award winning writing, directing and editing team whose work includes Sara Pascoe’s OUT OF HER MIND, C4’s HALLO PANDA and the cult film NINA FOREVER “Strikingly original” (Kim Newman, Screen International), “As affecting as it is daring” (Total Film), “Bittersweet, heartfelt, heart-breaking, thoughtful, hilarious, audacious and absolutely fantastic” (SciFi Now). Ben adores the craft of screenwriting and is passionate about supporting original voices to make better films.

No experience or prerequisites necessary

• Pay in full - £375 + £6.50 service fee
• Pay 25% deposit at checkout and remaining before class starts

Fee includes 'Buy One Get One Half Price' show tickets and free entry to FA Harold night for the duration of the course.

There are only 14 places on this course. If you have any questions about the course or your suitability, please email hello@thefreeassociation.co.uk.