The 3-Day Screenwriting Workshop is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the art and craft of writing for the screen. A basic familiarity with the essential principles of scriptwriting will be imparted to the participants, via a study of all the elements of the screenplay, including idea, theme, premise, character, plot, structure, scene design and dialogue.

Participants will be encouraged to look for stories within themselves, as well as in the larger world that they inhabit. Short as well as feature films will be shown and their screenplays analysed, thereby encouraging the participants to look at films from a storytelling perspective.

The workshop will furthermore look at mythology and its continuing relevance to all forms of storytelling, especially cinema. The uniqueness of the Indian film form will also be examined, with a view to understanding how Indian films are different in their approach from the Western models.

To elaborate, by the end of the workshop, it is hoped that the participants will not only have grasped the fundamental mechanics of the screenplay and its importance to filmmaking, but would also have learnt to channelise their imagination towards narrative cinema.