Screenwriting and Genre: Horror (Two Days, Full-Time)

The Met Film School is London's leading provider of practical filmmaking courses, based at Ealing Studios.

 

Course Overview

 

Why is horror such a popular and enduring genre and why do we love to be frightened? This two-day, weekend course will examine the legacy of this popular genre and how to maximise its story conventions in your own screenwriting.

 

Whether you’re influenced by films like Halloween, Poltergiest, The Wicker Man or Let The Right One In, you will learn how to utilise characterisation, dramatic structure and tone to improve and focus your creativity and ideas.

 

For more information Request A Prospectus and our enrolments team will get in touch to talk you through the course.

The Met Film School is London's leading provider of practical filmmaking courses, based at Ealing Studios.

 

Course Overview

 

Why is horror such a popular and enduring genre and why do we love to be frightened? This two-day, weekend course will examine the legacy of this popular genre and how to maximise its story conventions in your own screenwriting.

 

Whether you’re influenced by films like Halloween, Poltergiest, The Wicker Man or Let The Right One In, you will learn how to utilise characterisation, dramatic structure and tone to improve and focus your creativity and ideas.

 

For more information Request A Prospectus and our enrolments team will get in touch to talk you through the course.

 Learning Goals

 

- To have developed the basic tools and understanding of how specific genre conventions can aid your screenwriting and cinematic storytelling

 

- To have learned how to identify the tools of genre to reach your audience and strengthen your own writing

 

- To grasp the fundamentals of what makes horror compelling viewing

 

 

 Course Dates & Fees 

 

 

  Course Dates: 7 September 2013 - 8 September 2013, £300

 

 

 

 

Time: Two-days full time, over one weekend

 

 

Minimum Age: 18 at start of course

 

 

Entry Requirements: The Screenwriting and Genre: Horror course is open enrolment and there are no entry requirements.

 

 

Enrolment Process: See the enrolment process for our Other Full-Time, Part-Time & Weekend Courses.

 

 

Have you also considered our From Story to Screen in Eight Weeks & Introduction to Screenwriting programmes?