Class Description:
Students can log in to post assignments, chat and receive feedback 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

This class is for writers who currently have a solid outline for a feature film script, or complete original screenplay. 

We limit this course to 8 students per session.

In Screenwriting 2, we explore the finer dynamics of a complete and polished draft.  Every moment must be tight.  Our instructors will provide exercises which will help you test your story, tighten your structure, solidify your characters and increase the impact of each beat.

Topics will include:
-Strengthening your main characters.
-Fine tuning your cast.
-Improving Your Dialogue
-Analyzing your scenes.
-Testing the pace of your story.
-Exploring all of the possibilities of your rewrites.
-Finding agents.
-Marketing and Pitching.

Instructor Profile:
This class will be led by Randy Pearlstein for the 8 weeks, and will feature guest writers as well.  Each will share their experiences and favorite approaches for writing for the screen.  Lectures and Individual Feedback are posted on a weekly basis.

Randy Pearlstein was a regular cast member on CHAPPELLE'S SHOW and is currently a principal on Comedy Central's MICHAEL AND MICHAEL HAVE ISSUES.  Randy is a professor of film and television writing at RUTGERS UNIVERSITY and is on the faculty at the Peoples Improv Theater (The PIT) in New York City.  He has also written numerous screenplays including Lions Gate's CABIN FEVER.  Randy studied directing under Mike Nichols and annually leads seminars for the esteemed DIRECTORS GUILD OF CANADA.

Randy onIMDB

 
Screenshot from Chappelle's Show. 

With Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and Donnell Rawlings. 

 

"Randy is a great storyteller and is perpetually engaging the audience. " C. Gunn.

"Thank you so very much! It was a pleasure. Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm, inside knowledge and ideas." A. McInnis.

"Randy is a charismatic intelligent speaker who gets across his message with clarity and a comedic factor that makes his workshop both informative and amusing." S. Sedmak.