Interested in writing for stage or screen?

YOU CAN
  • Learn the art of dramatic script writing in 8 weeks
  • Produce your film with our production company
  • Or sell your finished script for RMB500,000

In this course you will learn:

STORY
  • The purpose of art and stories in our lives
  • Entertainment vs. enlightenment
  • Semiotics and the cognitive connection

STRUCTURE
  • Anatomy of the 3-act structure
  • Scene-by-scene and act-by-act analysis
  • Plot patterns and the nine critical events

CHARACTER
  • Eight character functions all stories must have
  • Character vs. characterization
  • Character as a story's driving motivation

CONFLICT
  • Effective and ineffective forms of conflict
  • Fear/hope, tension/release, threat/violence
  • The axis of antagonism

METAPHOR
  • Story substance, quality, and appeal
  • Communication and the ladder of abstraction
  • Convention and the ladder of originality/familiarity

IDEATION
  • Character, scene, and thematic ideation
  • Respecting genre and convention
  • Research and the myth of writer's block

REVISION
  • Identifying and strengthening weak scenes
  • Overcoming plot holes and logic problems
  • Ideation, incubation, and chaotic interpolation

CRAFT
  • Premise to polish
  • The writer's eye
  • Maintaining inspiration

Student discount offered

Students who enroll with a friend will receive a discount of RMB1,000. This discount ends May 31st.

Jingzhuanxue partners with two production companies

As of February 2007, Jingzhuanxue has partnered with two Beijing film production companies. Students who produce quality work during their 8-week course may have their work purchased by these production companies and get their films produced. Films of all genre and length will be considered.

Press Release: New school offers scriptwriting course

PRESS RELEASE:
BEIJING - With the State Administration of Radio Film and Television offering RMB500,000 for "more sophisiticated scripts," a new school promises to teach film students how to cash in on the offer.

Jingmeng Zhuangao Xuehui (憬梦撰稿学会) offers an 8-week course in writing for the stage and screen intended primarily for college-age students, but open to anyone looking for more inspiration or creativity. The course includes 24 hours of classroom instruction plus additional workshop hours, and meets once a week for three hours in locations in Wudaokou and Guomao. Topics include story, structure, character, conflict, metaphor, ideation, revision, and craft.

"People kept asking me for my advice on their scripts and stories, so I decided to teach a class," says Peter Walters, Beijing-based screenwriter and course instructor. "I love writing, and I love talking about writing. If I can help someone get their script started or finished, I'm happy." A former journalist and writing instructor in America and China, Walters is currently writing a two film scripts set in China, a number of TV scripts, and is co-authoring a book on narrative semiotics.

Rounding out the teaching team is Christopher Ruggles, an American film producer and Beijing-based Arts Director, who previously taught subjects ranging from Latin, literature, Classics, and film at Yale, Northwestern, and Beijing Broadcasting University. "I'm happy to be working with Peter," says Ruggles. "Our primary goal is to develop talent and empower people to transfer their cultural experienes to the stage and screen."

While students will focus primarily on short scripts (10-30 pages), graduates of the 8-week course may receive additional mentoring on full-length scripts. Two production companies attached to the school may option or produce students' work through all stages of production. All classes are taught in English.

For more information visit jingzhuanxue.com.
English: 135.2214.8109
汉语: 139.1103.9985
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