Session Available:
June 15 - 22, 2024
Inquire now for This Available Session!
June 15 - June 22, 2024
We hope this week will work for you.
We will offer more weeks in the coming seasons.
QUESTIONS? INTERESTED? FOR FAST RESPONSE:
Text (310)968-4044 or Email: patriciakmeyer1@gmail.com
Our schedule includes daily writing, film-viewing, instruction to clarify the purposes of the crucial three acts, group table-reads, and one-on-one mentoring.
No matter your genre or stage of script development, we will guide you through the process of identifying the best structure to advance the story you want to tell. At any point in the workshop, we can provide direct feedback on what you’ve written.
New writers will leave our workshop with a three-act outline, a completed first act, and the knowledge to complete a draft that works structurally and thematically, as long as they put in the work!
If you are rewriting a script, or have completed a partial script, provide us with material in advance of the workshop and we will read it and provide comments. During our week together, we will advise you how to improve your story, fix structural problems, hone scenes, elevate themes and advance character development.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
SATURDAY
Arrival from 8 am - noon
Lunch Introductions: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Presentation: Story Structure and Character Development 2:30-4:30 pm
Break/Relax/ Write
Dinner: 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Act One/First Half: 8-9:30 pm
SUNDAY
Breakfast: 6:30-9:30 am
Presentation: Character Development: Want, Need, Theme
Writing Exercise: Character Bios, Inciting Incidents
Lunch 1- 2:30 pm
Act One/Second Half 3-5 pm
Break/Relax/ Write
Dinner: 8 pm
Overnight Assignment: Outline your first act, or first act revision, and submit to instructors and colleagues by 9am the following day.
MONDAY
Breakfast 6:30-9:30am
Workshop Act One Outlines. Discuss the importance of set up. Do you have a burning bridge moment?
Lunch 1- 2:30 pm
Act Two/First Half: Finding the mid-point. 3-5pm.
Writing Assignment: Revise Act One outline. Submit to Patty and Laura.
Dinner 8 pm
TUESDAY
Breakfast 6:30am-9:30am
Discuss your Act One Revisions one-on-one.
Writing Assignment: Write the opening of your screenplay, the first five pages. Set up character, world, tone.
Lunch 1- 2:30 pm
Presentation: Act Two/2nd Half
Continue writing Act One opening.
Dinner: 8pm
FRIDAY
Breakfast 6:30-9:30am
Presentation: Act Three
Continue writing Act One. Submit to instructors.
Assignment: Work to complete screenplay outline or note changes for future revision.
Lunch 1- 2:30 pm
Dinner 8 pm
SATURDAY
Breakfast: 6:30-8:45 am
Each writer meets individually with instructor to discuss a completion game plan.
Depart: 12:00
THURSDAY
Breakfast 6:30-9:30am
Table read screenplay pages and discuss by the pool.
Presentation: Conflict, Confrontation; Emotional Breaking Point (End Act 2)
Assignment: Finish writing Act One.
Lunch 1- 2:30 pm
Dinner 8 pm
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast 6:30am-8:45am
Visit Parma with Gino! Depart 9am
Lunch at a traditional trattoria
Dinner 8pm
Screen a film if desired.
PRICING
Private Suite: $3,500
Shared Room: $2,500 (including workshops)
A Suite can be shared with a significant other for an additional charge of $2000 for food and other amenities as long as the added guest is not participating in the program and willing to lead quiet lives while on the property.
Included:
The Farmhouse: Screenwriting Intensive program.
7 NIGHTS: In a private (or shared) deluxe, renovated suite. Shared rooms have one queen bed or two single beds, depending on preference. And private bathroom.
Transportation to and from the train station in Fidenza, Italy, upon arrival and departure.
All on-site chef-prepared meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Use of all Il Casale common rooms and outside spaces, including heated swimming pool and surrounding gardens.
Wine with dinner, as well as reasonably priced bottles for purchase.
Local / Non-Residential Rate: Please Inquire