Summary
Learn the craft and business of screenwriting from David Seidler, the Academy Award winning screenwriter of THE KING'S SPEECH starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush
PLUS! You'll receive a copy of David's script for THE KING'S SPEECH!
A career as a screenwriter can be both highly rewarding and immensely challenging. You’re not only working on the story and structure of your script, but you’re also constantly figuring out the structure and path of your career. Approaching your script and lifelong career are actually quite similar. When you’re writing a scene you need to continually ask yourself “does this scene move my story forward in a meaningful way?” The same applies to the choices you make in your career. The most prolific and successful screenwriters tend to simultaneously hone their craft and career trajectory in tandem.
However, how can you work on your screenwriting craft and manage a career as a screenwriter to maximize your success? What elements of the craft of screenwriting should you pay most attention to as you’re starting off and what career decisions should you make that will prove fruitful for your future? How can you build a screenplay and make career choices that will bring you the most creative fulfillment and success?
In this exclusive Stage 32 on-demand webinar, Academy Award winning screenwriter David Seidler will take you through the fundamentals of screenwriting to elevate your work as well as the best ways to plan your lifelong screenwriting career. David will walk you through specific choices he made in his Oscar winning screenplay for THE KING’S SPEECH, including story and scene structure, character development and arcs, dialogue choices, and more. You will learn how David approached his writing process for THE KING’S SPEECH and how the artistic and professional choices he made led to him winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. David will then walk you through how to navigate your career as a screenwriter and the importance of knowing your destination before you start your journey - in both your script and your career.
This webinar is an incredibly unique and rare opportunity to learn the art and business of screenwriting from a master of his craft. Don’t miss the chance to learn from one of the top writers in the industry!
PLUS! David will provide you with an exclusive copy of the award winning screenplay for THE KING’S SPEECH that you can use to help hone your screenwriting and storytelling craft.
Praise For David's Screenwriting
"David Seidler beautifully wove the complexities of the human condition with laughter, heartache and even madness - all for the sake of storytelling." - Rotten Tomatoes
"The King’s Speech, written by David Seidler, is moving, informative, and easily engages a broad audience." - Script Magazine
What You'll Learn
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Structure
- Plot
- Character development
- Dialogue
- Theme
- Understanding the role of the screenwriter in the filmmaking process
- Exploring the elements of a screenplay
- What is your big moment at the end of the movie that ties it all together?
- David Seidler: A Journey into Screenwriting
- David’s screenwriting career
- Experience and insight from the industry
- The King's Speech: A Case Study
- Analyzing the writing process behind the Academy Award winning film
- Research and historical accuracy
- Crafting compelling characters
- Building a strong narrative structure
- Tone: balancing drama and humor
- Navigating the business of screenwriting
- Breaking in - how to put your best foot forward and plan the career you want
- Writing your script - the one that goes to producers and the one for the map of your career
- Making the right choices for your career
- What kind of stories do you want to tell and how that will inform your career choices
- Q&A with David
Who Should Attend
All levels of screenwriters (advanced, intermediate and beginner) looking to learn how to craft compelling screenplays.
All levels of screenwriters (advanced, intermediate and beginner) looking to build and hone their career as a screenwriter.
Producers (advanced, intermediate and beginner) looking to develop an award-winning screenplay.
Producers (advanced, intermediate and beginner) looking to learn about the craft and business of screenwriting.
Actors who want to take control of their careers by becoming screenwriters.
Executive
A Londoner by birth, David was sent to the USA as an infant during WWII which resulted in a childhood stammer. George VI, the reluctant stuttering King, became a boyhood hero, role model, and many years later the inspiration for his film The King’s Speech staring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter and Guy Pearce, which won the Best Picture Oscar for 2010 and for which David was awarded the golden man for Best Original Screenplay, two BAFTA’s and numerous other gongs. Nominated three times for the WGA Writing Achievement award, winning for Onassis, The Richest Man In The World.
His stage version of TKS has toured England twice, played the West End, and been produced so far in nine foreign languages. It was headed for Broadway after a short US tour, but got derailed by Covid.
David has lectured in Milan, Rome, Lima, Porto, A.F.I. Los Angeles, Sundance, Dreamago Institute in Switzerland, and Laboratorio Novas Historias in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He lived for several years in Fiji, where he was Political Advisor to Chief Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and travelled with the Fijian Delegation to London where he participated in Fiji’s Constitutional Conference.
He resided in New Zealand for eight years and returns yearly to educate the trout and see his son Manu, a senior video editor at TVNZ. His daughter, Maya, is a documentary producer/director at Edgeline Films where she is currently Head of Production.
In 2016 David founded a production company, Studio Seven 13, with producing partner Clara Hendon.
Seidler divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and a fishing cabin in the Urawera Mountains of New Zealand.
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