Class Starts Saturday, March 1st, 2025

This class will meet via Zoom on Saturdays from 3PM-5PM CST

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After winning Project Greenlight and co-directing THE BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS, Kyle Rankin directed INFESTATION for Mel Gibson, NUCLEAR FAMILY for Michael Eisner, and created the viral videos Case Tape #347 and Exhibit B-5. In 2015, he crowdfunded NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEB (Amazon Prime), and used the same creation model for 2018's THE WITCH FILES (Netflix). His seventh feature, RUN HIDE FIGHT, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020, and his latest, THE ROUGHNECK, will debut in 2025.

Learn more about Kyle in our Meet the Teaching Artist series.

In this class, you will learn everything about movie scripts from 'fade in' to 'fade out.' You'll explore and discuss idea creation, story structure, formatting, feedback, rewriting, and much more.

Over six sessions, we'll study all the major story structure paradigms... so you can integrate and then forget them.

We'll cover proper formatting, the pros and cons of outlining, opening and closing images, surviving Act Two, midpoints and mirror moments.

Students can plan on tackling their screenplay once the class is over... or be writing their first one AS WE GO. No matter where students find themselves in their script-writing journey, in this class, they'll have the benefit of knowing their instructor will be drafting an original script DURING the 6 week class, and he'll be sharing the pain points and real-time problem solving in weekly updates.

Every class will end with a 45 minute Q&A, during which students will have the option to have their pages critiqued by the instructor and classmates.

Course texts:

SCREENPLAY by Sid Field

ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE by William Goldman

THE WRITER'S JOURNEY by Christopher Vogler

COURSE OUTLINE:

• WEEK ONE: What is a screenplay?
• WEEK TWO: Structure, Formatting, & Outlining
• WEEK THREE: Fade In & First Act
• WEEK FOUR: Surviving Act Two
• WEEK FIVE: Act 3, Fade Out, and Feedback
• WEEK SIX: Celebration, Polishing, and Next Steps

COURSE TAKEAWAYS:

• The course is designed for fledgling screenwriters to 'proceed at their preferred pace.' For some, this could mean letting the information wash over them while note-taking, & producing a handful of writing exercises.
• While for others, it could mean 'writing along with Kyle' and having a completed script at the end of the 6-week course. 
• Whichever path is taken (including any of the options in between) student will take away a full sense of the screenwriting process and the knowledge to tackle their own!

ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:

This class meets weekly via Zoom. Come prepared for a super fun class with live interaction on Zoom each week and plenty of writing, reading, and talking!

PAYMENT OPTIONS:

Tuition is $495 USD. You can pay for the course in full or use Shop Pay or Affirm to pay over time with equal Monthly Payments. Both options are available at checkout.

• Instructor: Kyle Rankin
• This class will meet weekly on Saturdays, starting on March 1st, 2025
• Live Seminar via Zoom 3:00PM - 5:00 PM CST
• Tuition is $495 USD

Contact us HERE if you have any questions about this class.