10.30AM - 12.30PM FREE This workshop has been funded by the Sir John Hurt Film Trust. This workshop will show you how to launch your screen ideas from the original concept to a structure for a working draft. We'll cover: - the basics of script formatting (and why it matters) - generating and developing your ideas - building credible, compelling characters - the principles of story structure We'll also touch briefly on format, genre and theme. You'll leave with a clear sense of the shape of your story and where it's going - and with plenty of writing opportunities during the session, you'll be able to produce some working pages and get feedback on them. It's an interactive session, with writing exercises and collaboration with the rest of the group. If you're not sure what you might want to work on, don't worry; not everyone will have an idea ready to go, but by the end of the workshop you'll have plenty of material and the tools with which to develop it. Please bring a notebook and pens, or a laptop if you have one. About the tutor Abigail Webber has worked in the film and television industry for nearly twenty years, starting out as a script reader and production assistant and moving on to roles as a script editor, development executive, Commissioning Editor for Drama (C5) and executive producer. More recently she began teaching as a Senior Lecturer in Film & Screen Studies and Media Production at the University of Northampton, specialising in Scriptwriting for Film, Television and Radio. Abigail combines lecturing with freelance script development consulting and, having gained an MA in Screenwriting, is developing her own portfolio of writing for both film and television. She is a member of BAFTA and Women in Film & TV.