Aaron Sorkin wrote his first movie on cocktail napkins. Those napkins turned into A Few Good Men, starring Jack Nicholson. Now, the Academy Award-winning writer of The West Wing and The Social Network is teaching screenwriting. In this class, you’ll learn his rules of storytelling, dialogue, character development, and what makes a script actually sell. By the end, you’ll write screenplays that capture your audience’s attention.
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In addition to both improving your storytelling skills and outlining what it takes to write incredible scripts, Aaron invites you into his writer’s room for an eight-part screenwriting case study where he and his team will script, rewrite, and break down a new Season 5 premiere of The West Wing.
Diving deep into screenwriting fundamentals, Aaron offers detailed lessons on narrative structure, character development, generating new ideas, and his signature style of dialogue. Aaron knows that great screenwriting requires intention and obstacle. He dedicates several lessons to explaining how to create conflict, raise dramatic stakes, and keep audiences watching. Designed to offer useful lessons to seasoned and emerging screenwriters, Aaron’s class can be enjoyed by writers of all skill levels.
Aaron’s screenwriting MasterClass will reinvigorate your screenplays with 35 exclusive video lessons and a customized workbook tailored to each chapter. In this online class, Aaron teaches how to:
• Create intention and obstacle
• Develop unforgettable characters
• Hook audiences from the opening scene
• Write compelling dialogue
• Add momentum to your scenes
• Apply and subvert the rules of drama
• Research and gather material
• Establish consistent writing habits
• Overcome writer’s block
• Pitch screenplays
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