For the first class, students should bring a 2-3 page summary of the script. For many, the best way to learn to write a feature-length narrative screenplay is to learn to write a short narrative screenplay. Eighty percent of what you need for writing your big-screen masterpiece can be learned by constructing short scripts first. With the accessibility and cost effectiveness of digital video-making, those with a narrative film vision can work efficiently and inexpensively within the now broader medium of visual storytelling. We will also discuss the adaptation of short scripts into feature-length screenplays.
Submission is optional.
Send samples of no more than 30 pages to the Graham School at the University of Chicago by March 23. Those submissions not discussed during the seminar will receive a short written critique. Bios Michael Fry Michael Fry is a Chicago-born writer of nine feature films, three optioned feature films to independent producers, episodic television, television pilots, and plays. He has worked on The Cosby Show , The Fresh Prince of BelAir and Townsend Television, and was nominated for a Humanitas Award for an episode of Fresh Prince . He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing for Film and Television from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.