How to Write a Great Suspense-Mystery for OTT & Digital Movies
LIVE MENTORING PROGRAM
Duration: Nov 26th to Dec 11th 2022 (Over 3 Weekends)
12-Hours plus | 4 to 6PM IST
How to Write a Great Suspense-Mystery for OTT & Digital Movies is a practically guided Workshop from Inspiration to Finished Screenplay… of course, with your continued writing and rewriting!
Fee: ₹4999
TAKEAWAY:
• Hands on experience on devising, developing, arranging, writing, rewriting, and refining a mystery screenplay.
• Learn ‘how-to’ write a decent suspense-mystery step-by-step, starting with building appealing, lifelike, actively dramatic characters, that generate a complicated yet convincing plot full of mystery, danger, unpredictablilty, and intense conflict.
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Week – 01: Day-01
- Why We Read Mysteries
- What Mystery Writers Should Know
- The Good/Bad/Ugly – Ideas
- The Plot Behind the Plot
- Crafting a Murderer
- Exercises
Week – 01: Day-02
- How to Go Close to a Murderer
- The Hero/Investigator
- Inventing Your Best Hero
- The Other Characters: Some Fictional, Some Not
- Interesting Devices for Mystery Writers
- Exercises
Week – 02: Day-01
- Plotting, Step-sheets, Flowcharts
- The Four Strong Points of Mystery
- Designing the Plot
- Plotting Theory
- Exercises
Week – 02: Day-02
- The Hero Gets to Work
- How the Hero Figures It All Out
- Bringing a Gripping Climax
- Things to Wrap Up
- The Murderer in the Bag
- Writing Effective Prose
Week – 03: Day-01
- Art of Writing the Suspense/Mystery Scene
- Creating a Sense of Place
- Clues and Misdirection
- Suspense, Action, Reflection
- Layering Backstory
- Exercises
Week – 03: Day-02
- Viewpoints and Voices of Suspense/Mystery
- Revisions and Checklist:
- The Premise, The Sleuth, The Crime
- The Victim’s Secrets, The Villain
- Innocent Suspects
- A Blueprint for Suspense/Mystery
FOUNDER MENTOR
SAB JOHN EDATHATTIL
Sab John Edathattil is an Indian screenwriter and filmmaker, who has penned scripts for some very critically acclaimed films in Malayalam and Tamil.
Screenwriter: Chanakyan, Guna, Jilunnu Oru Kadhal and many more...
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