Online 5-Week Evening Course: Writing for TV Drama Work-in-Progress

The writer/director Taika Waititi once said, ‘Sometimes writing is opening up your laptop, looking at a blank page on Final Draft for about 8 hours, and then feeling sad and closing it.’ He’s right. This course hopes to make those days few and far between. If you have a stalled script, if you’ve run out of inspiration or lost your way with your writing, this is the course for you. Join award-winning screenwriters Simon Block and Claire Bennett as they guide you through examples and exercises designed to re-ignite your passion for your work. You’ll cover character development, structure and dialogue, how to move through drafts, and navigating the complexities of the television industry. By the end you’ll have fallen back in love with your writing, moving closer to taking your work from script to screen.

Please send a writing sample of no more than 10 pages of a TV drama script-in-progress and a page outlining your current project, any previous writing credits and what you hope to get from the course. Please send this material to arvonathome@arvon.org by Thursday 24th October at the latest.

• Do you want to commit time to your writing but life keeps getting in the way?
• Could you attend evening workshops and tutorials?
• Do you feel you could set aside five weeks to kickstart (or restart) your writing habit?

Then join us for our Online Five-week Evening Course which works alongside your life by offering all contact time on Monday evenings (with some tutorials/social time on a Tuesday evening). Each week there will be evening workshops designed to move you and your writing forward. You will also be offered a one-to-one tutorial with each tutor + a free pass to all readings and masterclasses happening elsewhere at Arvon at Home.

Whether you feel you can commit just two hours a week, or more, you will come away from this course with a regular writing routine and a whole new network of contacts and companions for your writing years ahead.

Online: £450

Concessions: £315

As part of our effort to increase participation in the arts, we offer limited concessionary places at a 30% reduction. You can select this option at checkout if available.

Grants are available to help with the course fee

We are committed to making our Arvon at Home programme accessible to as many people as possible.

Across all of Arvon at Home

• All sessions will have auto-generated captioning.
• There is a Chat facility to ask any questions.

Masterclasses 

• A recording of the Masterclass will be available to view for one month after it is aired live, simply log in to your account on our website and you’ll find a link under the ‘Event Details’ tab in the ‘Video recording’ column (you may need to scroll right on your screen to see it), similarly, if any learning resources are available, another link will appear under the ‘Course Materials’ tab.
• There is a Chat and Q & A facility to ask any questions.
• Zoom webinar format (your  video and audio will remain off throughout & your name will not be visible to other participants, so it is a ‘relaxed’ event).
• During sessions we will have a text version available via screen share (if you require these in advance of the session, please email arvonathome@arvon.org).  

Online Writing Day

• A recording of the workshops will be available to view for one month after it is aired live, simply log in to your account on our website and you’ll find a link under the ‘Event Details’ tab in the ‘Video recording’ column (you may need to scroll right on your screen to see it), similarly, if any learning resources are available, another link will appear under the ‘Course Materials’ tab.
• There is a Chat and Q & A facility to ask any questions.
• All sessions of the day are delivered live via Zoom meetings, with the option of cameras off or on. 
• During sessions we will have a text version available via screen share (if you require these in advance of the session, please email arvonathome@arvon.org).  

How I Write

• There is a chat and Q&A facility to ask any questions.
• Zoom webinar format (your video and audio will remain off throughout, & your name will not be visible to other participants so it is a ‘relaxed’ event).
• A recording will be available to view for one month after the event is aired live, simply log in to your account on our website and you’ll find a link under the ‘Event Details’ tab in the ‘Video recording’ column (you may need to scroll right on your screen to see it), similarly, if any learning resources are available, another link will appear under the ‘Course Materials’ tab. 

Online Writing Weeks and Evening Courses

• Courses are delivered by Zoom meeting, which means they are not recorded. 
• Courses have much smaller groups than Masterclasses and How I Write events, and are also more interactive with your fellow course participants and tutors, so cameras and audio are usually on (though both are completely optional). If you would prefer your camera and audio to be off at all times, it would be helpful to let your course host know this in advance. 
• We use Padlet as a landing page for all course materials, and to provide an optional platform for interaction with your tutors and fellow course participants. If you would like some more information about this, or if you have any anxiety about using this platform, please email arvonathome@arvon.org.  

Subject to funding/permissions (please contact arvonathome@arvon.org for more details)

• Recording of Writing Weeks and Evening Courses.
• Downloadable transcripts.
• BSL interpretation.
• Live captioning.

If you have any access issues that we have not covered here, please contact us on access@arvon.org

See here for more access information.