Splash Biography

On the one hand, Hollywood makes filmmaking appear dauntingly inaccessible to your average person. On the other hand, thanks to Youtube, it seems like everyone and their cat is a filmmaker. To strike a proactive balance, this course will introduce students to a version of the process of writing a short film script. We will proceed from the brainstorming stage of ideas to writing and revising an actual short script draft. As a professional actor and a thus far short filmmaker who is in the process of developing her first feature length script, I will guide the class in pit falls, do’s and don’ts, and the fun of turning the weirdness of everyday life into what we call a story. We will touch on elements of writing like the visual medium of film, dialogue, screen direction, character, and theme, and we will work on existing in the world like writers. We will also touch on elements of production. While action, fantasy, and romantic comedy lovers are very welcome, my emphasis in this class will twofold: psychologically realistic and absurdist/surrealist short comedy, because those are what I thus far do.