If you’re a creative with an idea for a short doco or factual film, 15 places are now available for regional Screenworks members in a new online workshop program designed to see you bring your idea to life.

Creative Factual Storytelling: From Ideas to Screens will give you two months of mentoring to be a great storyteller, offering strategies for taking your ideas from the page to the screen.

Part 1

The programme involves four weekly, two-hour workshops delivered via zoom, covering how to find a story, how to research the subject matter, tell the story visually and in sound, research the audience, get to know the potential market place and deliver exciting, engaging, successful stories.

Participants will work with a tried and tested manual, which they can use for reference and can stream the sessions to revisit as required

Part 2

Then comes what Media Mentors call the “long tail.”

Participants put into practice what they’ve learned by delivering a short film in just 4 weeks!

It could be a proof of concept, a trailer or a scene from their factual idea, and you can work as an individual or as part of a team.

The style and content of the short film will be decided during the course and the duration will be between 1 and 5 mins.

At the start of part 2 there’ll be a one-hour online via zoom setting goals session defining what they will achieve in the next four weeks of production.

A moderated and supported WhatsApp group will run throughout this period to support all participants to produce fantastic content they can use to pitch their idea or be part of their film.

Finally a show and tell online via zoom graduation session – where the work they’ve done during the course is shown to the group – with a BYO glass of something to celebrate the screening.

Who is this designed for? 

For the amateur and the professional – and everybody in between – who want to know how to tell a good yarn or to improve their story-telling skills.

Applications close 28 June 2020 and you can visit the Screenworks website for more information and to apply 

https://screenworks.com.au/event/creative-factual-storytelling-program/