Screenwriting & Film Studies

Character: types of antagonist and their uses

The Principle of Displacement: drama technique, how to get 'off the point' constructively

Introducing the fine art of adaptation

Character: heroes and anti-heroes

Genre Case Studies: dreams, memories and fantasies

Script to Screen: a comic seduction scene with finesse

Adaptation: adapting from different formats

Character Case Studies: examples of characters under pressure

Case Study: the story of a paedophile who finds redemption

Genre Case Study: new twists on the werewolf film

Structure Case Study: an example of the three act structure with breakdown

Character Case Study: a sex change comedy - script and screen

Case study: anti-heroes

Script to screen: a cult British gangster film

Script to screen: quirky Czech comedy

Character Case Study: portrait of an anti-hero

Script to Screen: a mismatched couple in comic reversals

Script to Screen: archetypes subverted by Terry Gilliam in a modern fable

Script to Screen: an opening sequence with a parallell script format

Script to Screen: ritual and games in a scene

Character Case Study: antagonists meet their match

Character case study: a weak character succumbs to pressure in Bergman's moral war film

Character case study: revealing deep character by stripping away

Character case study: the crucial choice

Dramaturgy: the use of bathos in dramatic writing

Class handouts: collected under headings

Latest additions to the site

Why stories are important.

Some thoughts on choosing a story and developing it.

About the characteristic structures of stories.