Ever had an amazing movie idea - but no clue if it should be a five-minute short, a full-length feature, or just one perfect scene? In this session, we'll unravel how story size shapes everything from pacing to payoff, helping you match your idea to its ideal screen time. You'll learn how pros stretch or compress a story's heartbeat without losing tension, emotion, or spark. By the end, you'll be crafting scripts that feel exactly as long as they should - and hit just as hard.
Stories that stall lose their spark - but a great screenplay keeps every scene alive and pulling forward. In this session, you'll learn how to make your plot twist, climb, and explode with energy, using turning points that grab attention and tension that never fades. We'll break down how to build momentum scene by scene, turning slow moments into stepping stones toward your big payoff. By the end, you'll know how to make your script move like a movie that can't stop watching itself.
Every great movie starts with a question that burns beneath the action - what's this story really about? In this session, we'll peel back the layers of your screenplay to uncover the deeper message hiding between your characters' choices and your plot twists. You'll learn how to turn raw emotion and big ideas into cinematic moments that make audiences feel something real. By the end, you won't just be writing scenes - you'll be saying something that matters.
Stories don’t start with plot twists or explosions — they start with people in places. In this Teen Screenwriting Camp session, you’ll explore how the right character in the right world instantly creates tension, choices, and unexpected story paths. You’ll learn how setting shapes behavior, how personality collides with environment, and how simply changing who is where can open up brand-new possibilities for scenes and conflict. Through guided brainstorming, visual prompts, and collaborative exercises, you’ll experiment with building characters and worlds that generate story ideas on their own. Bring your curiosity, your favorite fictional worlds, and your boldest character concepts — we’re about to discover how location, perspective, and personality turn imagination into cinematic momentum.
Over the week, students learn the core building blocks of screenwriting — strong characters, natural dialogue, and visually engaging scenes. Short lessons mix with writing time, creative challenges, collaboration, and table reads, keeping the pace active and hands-on. By the end, students leave with original pages or a short script, a practical Teen Screenwriting Guide, and clear next steps for developing their stories.
4 Consecutive Days: Monday through Thursday 10:00a to 1:00pm
SPECIAL SUMMER CAMP RATE: $145
Suspense isn’t only about monsters or jump scares — it’s about the feeling that something isn’t quite right. In this Teen Screenwriting Camp session, you’ll learn how to build tension through mystery, unanswered questions, and the quiet moments that make audiences lean forward. We’ll explore how pacing, silence, misdirection, and visual clues can create unease long before anything dramatic happens. Through hands-on writing challenges and scene experiments, you’ll practice turning ordinary situations into moments filled with anticipation. Bring your favorite suspenseful scenes, your sharpest instincts, and your willingness to play with uncertainty — we’re about to discover how to keep viewers hooked without relying on fear alone.
Over the week, students learn the core building blocks of screenwriting — strong characters, natural dialogue, and visually engaging scenes. Short lessons mix with writing time, creative challenges, collaboration, and table reads, keeping the pace active and hands-on. By the end, students leave with original pages or a short script, a practical Teen Screenwriting Guide, and clear next steps for developing their stories.
4 Consecutive Days: Monday through Thursday 10:00a to 1:00pm
SPECIAL SUMMER CAMP RATE: $145
Whose eyes are we really seeing through when we watch a movie - the hero's, the camera's, or our own? In this dynamic session, young screenwriters will uncover how perspective shapes emotion, suspense, and truth on screen. You'll experiment with shifting viewpoints, creative camera angles, and storytelling tricks that change how an audience feels about a single scene. By the end, you'll see that choosing a point of view isn't just a technical decision - it's pure movie magic in your hands.
The first scene is your movie's handshake - and the last is its echo. In this session, you'll learn how to hook your audience from the very first frame and craft closing moments that hit with power, poetry, and purpose. We'll break down iconic openings and finales from your favorite films, uncover what makes them unforgettable, and help you design your own. By the time the credits roll, you'll know how to make your story begin with a spark and end like a legend.
Got a big movie idea but not sure how to get it all on the page? This session breaks down the secrets of planning a full-length screenplay - scene by scene, act by act - so your story actually gets finished. You'll learn how to stay inspired, manage your writing time like a pro, and build a plot that keeps your audience hooked from the first fade-in to the final credits. Bring your imagination and your hustle - by the end, you'll have a battle plan to write the movie that's been living in your head.
NO CLASS: 11/11/26 and 11/25/26
