Introduction to Screenwriting with Jesse Laurie

Name: Introduction to Screenwriting with Jesse Laurie
Start: 2022-09-24T10:00:00+08:00
End: 2022-09-24T13:00:00+08:00
Location: Story Lounge

This introductory workshop is for anyone who wants to learn the fundamentals needed to write a screenplay! Using the Six Pillars Of Storytelling, Jesse Laurie will take you through the 'concept to completion' process for writing your script, touching on ideation, concept development, synopsis', scene outlining, and the first draft.

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Sep 24, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Story Lounge

Learn the fundamentals needed to write a screenplay in this introductory workshop led by Jesse Laurie, a screenwriting lecturer at Curtin University’s SAE: Creative Media Institute and the WA Screen Academy, and a freelance script consultant and script reader.

Using the Six Pillars Of Storytelling, Jesse will take you through the ‘concept to completion’ process for writing your script, touching on ideation, concept development, synopsis’, scene outlining, and the first draft.

Please note this event is being hosted at Story Lounge, our pop-up literary hub in Hay Street Mall in Perth’s CBD.

TICKETING

Tickets are $30.00.

Companion card holders are welcome, please contact us on (08) 9328 1443 or at info@centreforstories.com to organise this.

If you are experiencing financial hardship, you can contact us to arrange entry at no charge on (08) 9328 1443 or at info@centreforstories.com.

TOILET

Please note that the Story Lounge does not have a bathroom but visitors can use the public toilets across Hay Street Mall at the Enex Building.

THANK YOU

Story Lounge would not be possible without the Humich Group who donated the Hay Street Mall shopfront to activate the CBD for local writers and artists, as well as financial support from the City of Perth and Australia Council for the Arts.

Jesse Laurie
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Jesse’s education, relevant to screenwriting, includes his Masters Of Professional Communications: Screen Studies (Majoring in Screenwriting), and UCLA’s Script Coverage Course. This led to his employment as a screenwriting lecturer at SAE: Creative Media Institute, Curtin University, and the WA Screen Academy. Jesse freelances as a script consultant and script reader, providing services for local and national producers, such as Aidan O’Bryan (Rams), Tania Chambers (How To Please A Woman), and Michael Boughen (Tomorrow When The War Began). Having received recognition for his screenwriting from the AWG (Monte Miller shortlisting) and Screenwest (Elevate+), Jesse is excited to offer his screenwriting services to the feature project, Raising Thunder.

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